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,” created by Rothko in 1957,
Published on 200g Fine Art heavy cardstock
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, in 2004.
Authorized print, copyrighted 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 displayed; it has always been kept in a professional art portfolio, so it remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

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(*) Mark Rothko was, alongside Pollock, the leading representative of American abstraction. Through his painting, he sought to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And many believe he succeeded.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Coming from an evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove so many brilliant minds to escape.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before the Second World War, he practiced Expressionist figuration and immersed himself in the spirit of the avant-garde, which he saw in exhibitions organized by MoMA.
After the war, he began exploring color field painting, gradually abandoning all figurative references. In the 1950s, with Abstract Expressionism already established, he began developing the personal form of abstraction that would define his painting from then on.
Mark Rothko’s enormous paintings feature broad rectangular fields of color with indistinct boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas and evoking rather fascinating mystical sensations.
From then on, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. A protégé of Peggy Guggenheim, he achieved notable success. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis and after painting his series of works in black acrylic, he eventually took his own life.