Mark Rothko (after) - White Cloud Over Purple - Offset lithograph - Licensed print 2022 ** NO RESERVE **

Offset lithograph of Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “White Cloud Over Purple”, oil on canvas created by Rothko in 1957.
Edition on coated fine-art paper (250 g/m²)
Authorized print, published by McGawGraphics, Inc. USA

- Sheet dimensions: 28 x 36 cm
- Image dimensions: 21 x 21 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, therefore offered in immaculate condition).

The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number (UPS, DPD, DHL, FedEx)

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) The American painter Edward Hopper was one of the leading representatives of 20th-century realism. Although for much of his life his pictorial work did not receive critical or public attention and he was obliged to work as an illustrator to subsist, today his works have become icons of modern life and society.
He studied at the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. He made several trips to Europe, and from a very young age he took an interest in European culture and art, especially the works of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. From 1910 he permanently resided in New York, in his Washington Square house, which he only left during summer stays in New England, from 1930 always in Cape Cod, where he built a house. In 1924 he married Jo Nivison, who not only posed for him on numerous occasions, but who throughout his life kept a detailed record of his work. His artistic production is relatively small, as he was a painter of slow and deliberate execution. At first he was associated with American Scene, a heterogeneous group of artists sharing an interest in American themes, but Hopper soon developed his own personal painting style. His taciturn character and austere forms had a strong influence on his work, which as a whole is characterized by the simplified representation of reality and by the perfect capture of the loneliness of the contemporary man. Through his painting we come to understand the America of the Great Depression, which to him symbolized the crisis of modern life.
The cinematic treatment of scenes and his particular use of light are the main differentiating elements of his painting. Although he painted some landscapes and outdoor scenes, most of his subjects represent public places such as bars, motels, hotels, stations, trains, all of them almost empty to underscore the loneliness of the depicted figure. Moreover, Hopper intensifies the dramatic effect through strong contrasts of light and shadow.
Around 1930, as a consequence of isolationism, his fame increased considerably, although his critical fortune began to grow truly after his death, in 1967, when he began to be recognized as one of the great masters of 20th-century art and not only as an example of American realist painting.