Mark RothkoRed on Maroon 1959

Mark Rothko 1903-1970

T01169 Red on Maroon1959

Inscribed 'MARK ROTHKO | 1959' on back on canvas
Oil on canvas, 72 x 180 (183 x 457)
Presented by the artist through the American Federation of Arts 1969
Exh:Mark Rothko, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January-March 1961 (works not numbered, as 'Mural, Section 5, 1959'); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, October-November 1961 (42, repr.); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, November-December 1961 (42); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, January 1962 (42); Kunsthalle, Basle, March-April 1962 (43); Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, April-May 1962 (43, repr.); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, December 1962-January 1963 (38)

See the note on T01031. This picture has also been known as 'Mural, Section 5'… (read more)