Untitled Black On Grey

Untitled Black On Grey. From Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Mark Rothko, Untitled (Black on Gray) (1969), Acrylic on canvas, 93 × 76 1/8 in Painted in the wake of an acute illness, the work has a somber palette and stark composition that have long been attributed to the artist's depressed mental state


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Learn about this artwork by Mark Rothko in the Guggenheim's Collection Online. The artist claimed that these works symbolized death, and indeed, he killed himself soon after finishing the work.

Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection It is one of a series of Rothko's black and grey paintings

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Black on Grey), 1970 ekenitr Flickr. Untitled (Black and Gray) As a coda to an oeuvre premised on the "tragic and timeless" nature of man's fate, Rothko's Black on Gray paintings are ultimate vessels of the artist's intentions Painted in the wake of an acute illness, the work has a somber palette and stark composition that have long been attributed to the artist's depressed mental state

. Later, Rothko taped the edges of his canvases before painting to produce the. Rothko painted Untitled (Black on Grey) in 1970 when his health was failing, and he could only work on canvas that was stretched and taped around the edges, thus the painting's otherwise mysterious white border