Mark Rothko (after) - Maroon on Blue - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - VG licensed print - 2004

Offset Lithograph after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue,” a piece created by Rothko in 1957,
edited on thick Fine Art paper 200g
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 folder, and therefore remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be sent 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, alongside Pollock, was one of the leading figures of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that caused so many minds to flee.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. He cultivated expressionist figuration before World War II and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by the MoMA.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning all figurative reference, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting from then on.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show broad rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking rather interesting mystical sensations.
From then on, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But by the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately commit suicide.