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 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 stored in a professional art folder, thus kept in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. 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, alongside 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 achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently 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 self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the avant-gardes he saw in exhibitions organized by 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, began the personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous in size, display large rectangular fields of color with indistinct boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking mystic 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 at the end of the 1960s, in the midst of a depressive crisis, after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he ultimately took his own life.