Inscription
upper left: MARK ROTHKO; upper right reverse: MARK ROTHKO / BIRTH OF CEPHALOPODS / 1944; upper left reverse, sideways: MARK Rothko
Provenance
The artist [1903-1970]; his estate; consigned 1970 to (Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York); transferred 1977 back to the artist's estate;[1] transferred 1979 to The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York; gift 1986 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1945
- Mark Rothko Paintings, Art of this Century, New York, 1945, no. 11.
- 1946
- Oils and Watercolors by Mark Rothko, San Fransisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1946, no cat. (shown only in San Francisco).
- 1978
- Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1978-1979, no. 37, repro. (shown only in New York).
- 2012
- Mark Rothko, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 2012, no catalogue.
Bibliography
- 1948
- "Mark Rothko: The Romantics Were Prompted." Possibilities 1 (1947/1948): 85, repro.
- 1951
- Hess, Thomas B. Abstract Painting: Background and American Phase. New York, 1951: 151, repro.
- 1965
- Alloway, Lawrence. "The Biomorphic Forties." Artforum 4 (1965): 18-22.
- 1983
- Ashton, Dore. About Rothko. New York, 1983: fig. 2.
- 1983
- Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Rev. ed. of 1955 Ph.D. dissertation. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, 1983: no. 200, repro.
- 1983
- Weiss, Jeffrey. "Science and Primitivism: A Fearful Symmetry in the Early New York School." Arts Magazine 57 (1983): 81, repro.
- 1984
- Clearwater, Bonnie. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper. New York, 1984: 29, repro.
- 1989
- Chave, Anna C. Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction. New Haven, 1989: 67, repro.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 296, repro.
- 1995
- Sawin, Martica. Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School. Cambridge, 1995: 305, repro.
- 1998
- Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 231, repro.
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