Mark Rothko (after) - Maroon on Blue - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - VG licensed print - 2004

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” by Rothko created in 1957,
edited on thick Fine Art 200g cardstock
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, therefore it remains 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 foremost representatives 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 antisemitism from which many minds escaped.
He studied art in the 1920s but regarded himself as 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 researching color field painting, gradually abandoning all figurative references, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, initiated a personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show wide rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating mystical 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, amidst a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would end up taking his own life.