Mark Rothko (after) - Maroon on Blue - Offset lithography - 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 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, so it remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be certified 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 a leading representative 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 origin, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing antisemitism which drove many minds to escape.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated figurative expressionism and absorbed the spirit of the avant-gardes he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning all figurative reference, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, began the personal abstraction that would define his painting from then on.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show wide rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating mystical sensations that are quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes would be notable. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting a series of works with black acrylic, he ultimately committed suicide.