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Painting by Mark Rothko From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A group of paintings created by Mark Rothko now known as a series including works on canvas [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and paper [9] produced before the artists' death by suicide. [10]

The series has works which used both a combination of black and grey,[1] or are monotone black,[9] or with only a small quantity of color.[11] The artists' works include an expression of color as more wholly dark, absent in previous works, from sometime during the 1950s.[11]

Some of the serial of works were gifted by The Mark Rothko Foundation Incorporated to various city galleries in the United States, including: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,[12] the Guggenheim[2] and Museum of Modern Art of New York,[3] the National Gallery of Art in Washington.[5]

Altogether during 1970 the artist Rothko output three works [13] of these ACCESSION 85.27 is possessed by MoCA LA: Untitled the final in the grey-black serial painting.[12] Although black with or without grey was the theme of Rothko's end works his penultimate painting Untitled included blue. The termination of Rothko's art and life in 1970 was death,[13] his final product, red only.[13] [a]

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See also

Suicide of Mark Rothko

Notes

  1. Untitled, Mark Rothko, born: Russia - now Latvia: 1903, an American, is, or, was, some time viewable: NGA (East Building Tower Level, 615-A) [14]

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