mark ROTHKO
"New Paintings
by ROTHKO", 1958
Exhibition invitation/mailer, Sidney Janis Gallery NYC, Folded twice as original issued. One quadrant includes an image of Rothko's "Earth-Green and White" painting done in 1957,
21 x 14.75 in. (53.3 × 37.5 cm)
Condition:
Excellent- no fading, 1.5 inch split to the bottom of the vertical fold.
Provenance:
Private Collection, NY
Note:
Rothko's second and final one man show at Janis.
The show featured eleven new paintings which were more somber and generally received well by the press. E.C. Gossen, referring to the exhibition as "a handsome, major show," in Art International (issue 2-3, 1958) noted that "The New Rothkos are darker, composed of the rich reds, browns and blacks we associate with the luminous, the royal and the religious." Dore Ashton wrote in Arts and Architecture (April 1958), that Rothko "struck out with exasperation at the general misinterpretation of his earlier work - especially the effusive yellow, orange and pinks of three years back" and praised his "deeply developed sense of the tragic."