Picture "Blue and Grey" (1962), natural framed version
Picture "Blue and Grey" (1962), natural framed version
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limited, 500 copies | halftone process on handmade paper | framed | passe-partout | glazed | UV-protected | size approx. 81.5 x 75.5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Blue and Grey" (1962), natural framed version
Original: 1962, oil on canvas, 193 x 175 cm, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland.
Edition in 5-colour amplitude-modulated halftone process, which accurately reproduces intermediate tones, on 260g Rives handmade paper. Limited to 500 copies. Motif size 64 x 58 cm (h/w). Sheet size 70 x 70 cm. © 1998 Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko © Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Framed in a high-quality natural solid wood frame with passe-partout, dust-proof glazed with UV-resistant acrylic glass. Size framed approx. 81.5 x 75.5 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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About Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a leading member of the abstract artist group "New York School". Alongside Jackson Pollock, he is the second great representative of American Abstract Expressionism.
The painter, who was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Latvia, emigrated to the USA with his family in 1913. Between 1921 and 1923, Rothko studied at Yale University. Even before graduating, he abandoned his original plans to become a lawyer or engineer and moved to New York, where he took classes at the Art Students League of New York.
His early works were expressive portraits, city scenes and landscapes but, during his career, he developed his own pictorial language: his large-format works, characterised by superimposed monochrome colour surfaces, aim for precisely calculated light and spatial effects, for an almost meditative interaction between the image and the viewer. Thus, Rothko also accepted the offer to develop a concept for an interreligious devotional space (the "Rothko Chapel" in Houston).
A work by Rothko shapes space and gives it a face – art cannot do more than that.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
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Collective term for the painters and sculptors of the 20th century, such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall and others, whose works are now considered iconic artworks of our times.