Mark Rothko (1903-1970)

Untitled

細節

Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Untitled
acrylic on paper laid down on panel
39 3/8 x 25¾ in. (100 x 65.3 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

來源

Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Milan
Anon. sale; Sotheby's New York, 28 June 1995, lot 29
Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid
Anon. sale; Christie's London, 25 June 2001, lot 69
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

展覽

Boissano, Centro Internazionale di Sperimentazioni Artistiche M.L. Jeanneret, Abstrattismo e Pop Art, 1974, p. 8, no. 1 (illustrated in color).
Madrid, Galeria Elvira González, Untitled, October-November 1996.
Madrid, Galeria Elvira González, Chillida, Alabastros-Rothko. Pinturas, February-March 1998, p. 24 (illustrated in color).

拍品專文

"Feverishly working on unusually large-format sheets in 1968-69, Rothko wrested a variety of astonishing expressive possibilities from the acrylic medium. The dark, subdued palette that dominated his canvases of the period was found in the majority of these works on paper as well. Blackish-blue over deep violet, dark blues and greens dominated and emphasized the careful proportions of the interior surfaces hovering over an occasionally luminous, advancing ground. Alternating chalky opacity and glossy effects enlivened the visual play of the otherwise plain gradations in these works, that challenge the viewer to extended contemplation. Rothko's former seductive plasticity metamorphosed into a confrontational wall whose subtle translucencies reveal themselves only through a concentrated attempt to overcome and penetrate it."

(O. Wick, "Mark Rothko, Seeing Blind and Drawing as Remembrance Commemorated," in Galerie Beyeler, Mark Rothko, Works on Paper 1930-1969, exh. cat. Basel, 2005, p. 29.)