Mark Rothko (after) - Untitled (Violet

Offset Lithograph after Mark Rothko (*) Reproduction of the work “Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red)” created by Rothko in 1949. Printed on thick Fine Art paperboard. 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 kept in a professional art folder, therefore preserved in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. Shipping will be certified 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 sought to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he succeeded. Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of obviously Jewish background, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds to flee. 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 the exhibitions organized by MoMA. After the war he began to explore color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative references, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he initiated the personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since. Rothko’s paintings, enormous, feature broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, provoking mystical sensations that are quite fascinating. From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But by 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.

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