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Mark Rothko

Black on Maroon, 1959, 1959

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About the artwork

This painting was part of a set commissioned for the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building, New York, although Rothko later withdrew them. This picture was later included in a retrospective exhibition as 'Mural, Section 3' the opposite way up. To support this, on the back of the original MARK ROTHKO | 1959 is inscribed that way and the paint brush dribbles suggest that it should be hang in that direction. However, some arrows on the back point the other way which strongly indicates that Rothko later changed is mind and intended it to be hung the opposite way.

Abstract Art

Artist Mark Rothko
Artwork Black on Maroon, 1959
Image size 266.7 x 457.2 cm
Date of work 1959
Credit Original: Mixed media on canvas 266.7 x 457.2 cm © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/ DACS 2014

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) was an American artist and a pioneer of colour field painting. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the US in 1913, and from 1925 lived and worked in New York. Rothko resisted definitions of his work as belonging to particular artistic movements, but he is best known for his large paintings which are closely associated with abstract expressionism. In the early 1940s he began using archaic symbols and Jungian shapes to represent the primal emotions embedded in myths, and by 1947 he had abandoned the human figure and developed a highly original form of abstraction with paintings showing large edges of colour. He described his work as expressing basic human emotions, such as ecstasy and doom.

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