No. 16

Mark Rothko  (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date:
1960
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
102 x 119 1/2in. (259.1 x 303.5cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, George A. Hearn Fund and Hugo Kastor Fund, 1971
Accession Number:
1971.14
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Provenance

    Philippe Dotremont, Brussels (1960) Galerie Lawrence, Paris (1963) Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull, Great Neck, N.Y. (1963-1971) Auctioned Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Inc., 18 November 1970, lot no. 8, but not sold

  • Exhibition History

    Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, "Aktuelle Kunst-Bilder aus der Sammlung Dotremont", 3 March - 9 Aprill 1961, cat. no. 61, col. ill. (as No. 16), traveled to Kunsthalle, Basel, 22 April - 28 May 1961 (as Moderne Malerei seit 1945 aus der Sammlung Dotremont)m cat. no. 61, col. ill. (as No. 16).

    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, 18 October 1969 - 1 February 1970, cat. no. 352, col. ill. p. 105

    SRGM 1978, cat. no. 155, ill

    New York: Pacewildenstein, January 23-February 23, 2004, Rothko: A
    Painter's Progress - The Year 1949. p.62-63, illus. in color.

  • References

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29 (April 1971), ill. p. 372, comm.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions 1965 - 1975 (New York, 1975), ill. p. 214, comm.

    Steven Henry Madoff, "What is Postmodern about Painting: the Scandinavia Lectures," Arts Magazine 60 (September 1985), ill. p. 119

    Eugene Victor Thaw, "The Abstract Expressionists," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 44 (Winter 1986/87), col. ill. p. 13.

    Chave 1989, col. ill. no. 22, comm.

    Hiromoto 1993, col. ill. no. 49

    Waldman 1994, col. ill. no. 38

  • See also
210001106

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