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.
Authorized print with copyright by Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko.
Large Format.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Year: 2004
- Condition: Excellent (this piece has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, thus in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. 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, along with Pollock, was one of the leading figures of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most fundamental universal emotions. And for many, he succeeded.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of evidently Jewish descent, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably escaping antisemitism that sent so many minds away.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. He cultivated Expressionist figurativism before World War II and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by the MoMA.
After the war he began investigating color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative references, 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, feature large rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking mystical sensations that are quite interesting.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But at the end of the 1960s, amidst a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately commit suicide.