Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Mark Rothko

23 Apr - 14 Aug 2010

Маrк Rothko
No. 30, 1962, oil on canvas, 114.3 cm x 267.3 cm Photo by: G.R. Christmas / Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
MARK ROTHKO
"Into an Unknown World"

April 23 - August 14, 2010

We will open Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World, the first exhibition ever staged in Moscow by one of the world’s most celebrated artists in April.

Featuring over a dozen paintings, the exhibition spans twenty years of the artist’s career, from 1949 to 1969, and includes No. 12 (Yellow, Orange, Red on Orange), 1954 as well as monumental studies for all three of Rothko’s famous mural projects: The Seagram Murals, The Holyoke Center at Harvard University and the Rothko Chapel at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
One of Rothko’s last grey and black paintings from 1969 will also be on view. Mark Rothko (1903-1970) immigrated to the United States in 1913. He studied painting at Yale University from 1921-23, and was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Yale in 1969. Rothko has been the subject of six major surveys and retrospectives, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1998), which travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Kawamura Memorial Art Museum, Japan, which travelled to three museums in Japan (1995-96); the Tate Gallery, London, which travelled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1987-88); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1978-79); and two exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970 and 1961 - the retrospective in 1961 traveled to London, Amsterdam, Basel, Rome, and Paris. Rothko's work is in numerous permanent collections worldwide.
 

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