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 board
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Impression authorized 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 stored 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 insured 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 foremost 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. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds to leave.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself autodidactic. Before World War II he cultivated figurative expressionism and absorbed the spirit of the avant-garde 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 wide rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating mystic sensations that are quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes would be notable. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would commit suicide.