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AN EYE FOR COLOUR: WORKS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
Untitled (Season's Greetings)
Details
MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
Untitled (Season's Greetings)
signed and inscribed 'Season's Greetings Mark and Mell Rothko' (lower centre)
gouache on coloured paper
9 3⁄8 x 6 3/8in. (23.7 x 16.1cm.)
Executed circa 1955
Untitled (Season's Greetings)
signed and inscribed 'Season's Greetings Mark and Mell Rothko' (lower centre)
gouache on coloured paper
9 3⁄8 x 6 3/8in. (23.7 x 16.1cm.)
Executed circa 1955
Provenance
Collection of Ruth Stephan, Greenwich (acquired directly from the artist).
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York.
Their sale, Sotheby’s New York, 30 November 1977, lot 16.
Private Collection, New York.
Maeght Global Fine Arts, New York.
Jan Krugier Collection, Geneva (acquired from the above in 1983).
His sale, Sotheby’s New York, 15 May 2014, lot 125.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York.
Their sale, Sotheby’s New York, 30 November 1977, lot 16.
Private Collection, New York.
Maeght Global Fine Arts, New York.
Jan Krugier Collection, Geneva (acquired from the above in 1983).
His sale, Sotheby’s New York, 15 May 2014, lot 125.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussicher Kulturbesitz, 1999 (illustrated, p. 416).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du Dessin: Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, no. 172 (illustrated in colour, pp. 370-371).
Further details
This work is being considered for inclusion in the forthcoming Mark Rothko Online Resource and Catalogue Raisonné of works on paper, compiled by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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