Mark Rothko (after) - Maroon on Blue - Offset lithography - VG licensed print - 2004





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Offset lithography print after Mark Rothko, produced in Germany in 2004 by VG Bild-Kunst, 80 × 60 cm, in excellent condition.
Description from the seller
Offset lithograph after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” an artwork created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art 200g board
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Authorized print with copyright by Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko.
Large format.
- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Year: 2004
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art portfolio, thus in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be shipped with tracking number.
The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.
(*) Mark Rothko, along with Pollock, was a leading figure of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many, he accomplished it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably escaping the antisemitism that drove many minds away.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative references, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, huge, show broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, provoking mystical sensations that are quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would end up taking his own life.
Seller's Story
Offset lithograph after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” an artwork created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art 200g board
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Authorized print with copyright by Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko.
Large format.
- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Year: 2004
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art portfolio, thus in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be shipped with tracking number.
The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.
(*) Mark Rothko, along with Pollock, was a leading figure of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many, he accomplished it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably escaping the antisemitism that drove many minds away.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative references, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, huge, show broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, provoking mystical sensations that are quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would end up taking his own life.

