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

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art board 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, thus in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked with a tracking number.

The shipping 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.

(*) Mark Rothko, along with 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 accomplished it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of evidently Jewish family background, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably escaping the antisemitism that drove so many minds away.
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 vanguard movements he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
After the war he began to explore 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, monumental, show wide rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are fuzzy, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking mystical sensations that are quite interesting.
From that point on, Mark Rothko would become an institution in 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 ultimately commit suicide.