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 card stock
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 matted or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, thus kept in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be traceable with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transit 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 universal basic emotions. And for many, he achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of clearly Jewish family background, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing antisemitism for which so many minds escaped.
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 vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by the MoMA.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning 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, enormous in size, show wide rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended on the canvas, eliciting mystical sensations that are quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately commit suicide.