Rothko, Mark

"Dear George Reavey, Forgotten and lost voices but here we are, and we hope that if you are wandering about, that in some way this letter will catch you. I am actually writing this letter from Rome, from where we start northward in a few days. We expect to hit Paris about July 20th and England at the beginning of august, from where we sail back to America on Aug. 11th. We are hoping that we can catch you either in Paris or London. There is much that I hope to talk to you about. Please, if this reaches you, let us know to American Express, Paris. Our love. Mark and Mell Rothko".

Rothko post war European journey was the first time he came back to Europe since he left Russia in 1913. He visited Western Europe (Great Britain, France and Italy). And it was during this trip that his wife Mary Alice ("Mell") became pregnant. George Reavy was also Russian-born (his mother was Russian, his father Irish) but moved to Ireland in 1919 after his father Daniel was arrested. Reavy surrealist poet, publisher, translator and art collector. He met Rothko in New York in the end of the 1940s and became close friends.