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Provenance

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist) Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Riverside Museum, The First Annual Exhibition of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors , March 1941, cat. no. 117 New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective , October 1978 - January 1979 Brooklyn Museum, December 1981 - July 2019 (on extended loan) Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mark Rothko: A Consummated Experience Between Picture and Onlooker , November 2000 - April 2001, cat. no. 166, p. 172, illustrated in color New York, PaceWildenstein, Mark Rothko: The Realist Years , October 2001 - January 2002

Literature

Francis V. O'Conner, Ed., The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs , Washington, D.C. 1972, p. 123, illustrated (incorrectly dated circa 1936 ) Diane Waldman, Mark Rothko in New York , New York 1994, cat. no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné , New Haven and London 1998, cat. no. 166, p. 181, illustrated in color

Catalog summary

MARK ROTHKO 1903 - 1970 SUBWAY signed; signed Rothkowitz and titled on the strainer; signed on the reverse oil on canvas 40⅛ by 30⅛ in. 101.9 by 76.5 cm. framed: 41¼ by 31¼ in. 104.8 by 79.4 cm. Executed in 1939. Saleroom notice Please note this Lot is subject to a Guarantee. Provenance Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist) Thence by descent to the present owner Exhibited New York, Riverside Museum, The First Annual Exhibition of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors , March 1941, cat. no. 117 New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective , October 1978 - January 1979 Brooklyn Museum, December 1981 - July 2019 (on extended loan) Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mark Rothko: A Consummated Experience Between Picture and Onlooker , November 2000 - April 2001, cat. no. 166, p. 172, illustrated in color New York, PaceWildenstein, Mark Rothko: The Realist Years , October 2001 - January 2002 Literature Francis V. O'Conner, Ed., The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs , Washington, D.C. 1972, p. 123, illustrated (incorrectly dated circa 1936 ) Diane Waldman, Mark Rothko in New York , New York 1994, cat. no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné , New Haven and London 1998, cat. no. 166, p. 181, illustrated in color