LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

69.02 in. (175.30 cm.) (height) by 50.12 in. (127.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 1960 on the reverse

Exhibited:

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, . Art: An Environment for Faith , November - December 1965, n.p., illustrated. Santa Barbara, The Art Galleries, University of California, . Trends in Twentieth-Century Art: A Loan Exhibition From the San Francisco Museum of Art , January - February 1970, p. 60, no. 30, illustrated. Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, . Mark Rothko: Ten Major Works , January - March 1974, p. 17, illustrated in color. Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art; Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum; Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art; Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna; and Warsaw, National Museum of Poland, . Two Hundred Years of American Painting , June 1976 - February 1977, n.p., no. 44 (Baltimore); no. 48, illustrated (Belgrade); no. 49, illustrated (Rome). San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, . Collectors, Collecting, Collection: American Abstract Art Since 1945 , April - June 1977, n.p., no. 4 . San Jose, San Jose Museum of Art, . America VIII: Post War Modernism , November - December 1977, n.p. (text). Reno, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art; and Reno, Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, . The New York School 1940 - 1960: The First Generation of Abstract Expressionism , February - March 1979, n.p., no. 7, illustrated in color. San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, . From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture , August 1996 - May 1997. San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, . Making Art Histories: On the Trail of David Park , August 1997 - February 1998, no. 53 (checklist). Tokyo, Isetan Shinjuku Store; Fukui, Fukui City Art Museum; Wakayama, Museum of Modern Art; and Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts, . California Classics: Highlights from the Collection of SFMOMA , July - December 1999, illustrated in color (checklist) . San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, . Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection , October 2001 - April 2002. New York, Haunch of Venison Gallery, . Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere , September - November 2008, pp. 100-101, no. 43, illustrated in color

Literature:

San Francisco Museum of Art, . Catalog of the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture , San Francisco, 1970, p. 78, no. 69, illustrated in color. Elena Karina Canavier, "Mark Rothko Paintings," . Artweek 5, February 16, 1974, p. 1, illustrated (incorrectly dated . 1961 ). . The Graduate Review Magazine , San Francisco, March 1980, illustrated in color on the cover. Diana C. duPont, Katherine Church Holland, Garna Garren Muller, and Laura L. Sueoka, . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection , New York, 1985, p. 3, illustrated in color, p. 165, illustrated in color, p. 365, illustrated. Richard Phipps and Richard Wink, . Invitation to the Gallery: An Introduction to Art , Dubuque, Iowa, 1987, p. 261, illustrated in color. John Kissick, . Art: Context and Criticism , Madison, 1993, p. 407, illustrated in color. Gloria K. Fiero, . The Humanistic Tradition - 6: The Global Village of the Twentieth Century , Dubuque, Iowa, 1992, p. 90, illustrated in color. David Anfam, . Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné , New Haven and London, 1998, p. 532, no. 672, illustrated in color

Provenance:

The artist. Acquired from the above through a gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1962