Artist: Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz)
Date: 1948
Size: 135 x 118 cm
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Geometric forms, mostly rectangles with blurred edges, in tones of ivory and muted orange, red, and blue fit loosely together in this vertical abstract painting. The paint is blended and the forms have soft, blurred edges. Near the center, two vertical, narrow rectangles are painted in slate and ocean blue. A streak of the slate blue continues in a broken line down to the bottom edge of the canvas. Along the left edge of the canvas, several shapes are stacked, starting at the top with a pale shell-pink, horizontal rectangle above a rose-pink square. Then there is an ivory-white square and a vertical, ivory rectangle that continues off the bottom edge of the canvas. In the lower right quadrant, the largest form is a marigold-orange, horizontal rectangle with a few smudges and blocks of ruby red above it. A taller, crimson-red rectangle in the upper right is streaked with six vertical, white lines that seem to drip down from a white rectangle above. The shapes are surrounded by a pale, apricot-orange field.
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