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

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the artwork “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko 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 artwork has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, thus kept in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced cardboard box. 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 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 succeeded.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the anti-Semitism that drove many minds to leave.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressive figuration and absorbed 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 50s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show wide rectangular fields of color with indistinct boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking quite intriguing mystical sensations.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes would be notable. But in the late 60s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series with black acrylic, he would end up taking his own life.