Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon 1958
© Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/DACS 1998
Catalogue entry
Mark Rothko 1903-1970
T01170 Black on Maroon 1958
Inscribed 'MARK ROTHKO | 1958' on back of canvas
Oil on canvas, 90 x 81 1/2 (228.5 x 207)
Presented by the artist through the American Federation of Arts 1969
See the note on . Probably one of the pictures from the second series 'Sketch for Mural'.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.661, reproduced p.661
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