Mark Rothko

Ruth Stephan, Greenwich (acquired directly from the artist)
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation/Bellevue Hospital Center, New York
Sotheby's, New York, November 30, 1977, lot 16
Private Collection, New York
Maeght Global Fine Arts, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1983

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du Dessin: Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, March - June 2002, cat. no. 172, pp. 370-371, illustrated in color 

Alexander Dückers, ed., Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin, 1999, p. 416, illustrated
Philip Rylands, ed., The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin, 1999, p. 416, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges are deckled and there is a very slight undulation to the sheet. There is evidence of light discoloration from age along the edges of the sheet. There is a pinpoint-sized accretion in the lower right corner. Upon close inspection, a faint horizontal crease along the center of the sheet is visible, inherent to the artist's intended use of the work as a greeting card. The sheet is hinged verso intermittently to the matte. Framed under Plexiglas.
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