Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Volume 1Originally published in 1998 and still in print, this quintessential volume presents an overview of Mark Rothko’s stunning corpus of paintings on canvas and panel. With all works reproduced in color, the book includes the images for which Rothko is most famous—the large, hypnotic, poignant fields of color—along with almost 400 additional paintings that are far less well known and reveal an artist who was attuned by turns to realism, expressionism, surrealism, and the avant-garde issues of his era. "Far and away the best monograph ever written on Rothko."—Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum |
Contents
Guide to the Catalogue Raisonné | 4 |
A Complex Simplicity | 10 |
To See Rothko | 11 |
Surveying the Rothko Canon | 16 |
Inventory Dates Inscriptions and Titles | 19 |
19241939 | 26 |
19401950 | 46 |
19511970 | 70 |
Catalogue Raisonné 674 Concordance of Estate and Catalogue Numbers | 674 |
Works in Public Collections | 676 |
Reference Abbreviations | 677 |
| 681 | |
Illustration Acknowledgments | 696 |
| 698 | |
Other editions - View all
Mark Rothko: Published to Accompany the Exhibition "Mark Rothko, 'A ... Mark Rothko No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
Abstract Expressionism Adolph Gottlieb American Art American Painting April Art Gallery Art Museum Artist Basel Ben Heller Betty Parsons Black Breslin canvas catalogue Chave checklist Christopher Rothko Provenance Collection of Christopher Collection of Kate Cologne color comm Contemporary Art December Estate Number Exhibitions February Galerie Beyeler Gallery of Art Guggenheim Museum Hiromoto horizontal crossbar member Houston Inscriptions inverted ISC Japan 1995 January July June Kate Rothko Prizel Liechtenstein Liechtenstein 1970 London lower left lower right Madrid March Mark Rothko Foundation Marlborough A.G. Marlborough Gallery Inc Menil Collection Modern Art MoMA Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Museum of Modern National Gallery Note November October Orange Pace Gallery Paris Polcari Private Collection Provenance References Rothko Chapel Rothko Prizel Provenance Rothkowitz SEAGRAM September Sidney Janis Gallery Sotheby's SRGM Tate Tate Gallery Tate Liverpool titles Untitled cat upper center upper left upper right Verso Washington Gift Yellow Zurich