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

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” by Rothko, created in 1957,
edited on thick Fine Art 200g cardboard
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Authorized printing 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 artwork will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked with a 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, together with Pollock, was the 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 achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing antisemitism that chased many minds away.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressive figuration and soaked in 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 ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, huge, show large rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating mystic sensations quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes would be notable. But at the end of the 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would commit suicide.