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The first retrospective in France devoted to Mark Rothko (1903-1970) since that of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1999, the exhibition presented at the Louis Vuitton Foun- dation brings together some 115 works.
They come from the largest international institutional and private collections, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Tate in London, the Phillips Collection as well as the artist’s family.
The exhibition traces the artist’s entire career from his first figura- tive paintings to the abstraction that defines his work today.
Marcus Rotkovitch left his native Russia at the age of ten after at- tending Talmudic school. He never stopped nourishing his pain- ting with readings and reflections on art and philosophy. He will receive a plural intellectual training at Yale, from mathematics to economics, biology, physics, philosophy, psychology, languages... He will very early demonstrate a permanent social commitment and will accidentally discover painting in Art Students League in 1923. He returned there notably with Max Weber then became a member before leaving in 1930.
Mark Rothko,
Green on Blue (Earth-Green and White), 1956
Huile sur toile
228,6 x 161,3 cm
The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko - Adagp, Paris, 2023