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MARK ROTHKO American 1903-1970 Oil on Canvas

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MARK ROTHKO American 1903-1970 Oil on Canvas
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Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring an abstract expressionist composition. Signed and attr. Mark Rothko (American, 1903-1970) on the lower right corner. Notation inscribed on verso. 58.5 x 35 cm (23 x 13.8 inches). Frame size: 79.5 x 56 cm (31.3 x 22.0 inches). Mark Rothko’s search to express profound emotion through painting culminated in his now-signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as “the sublime.” One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothko’s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers’ communion with the canvas in a controlled setting. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate