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1946 (ca.), Mark Rothko, Untitled [watercolor] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: This work resembles a half-length portrait with a bulbous head and slender torso. Closer inspection reveals Rothko's debt to Pablo Picasso, specifically the elder artist's surrealist painting of a bather ["Seated Bather"]. There are clear visual rhymes in Rothko's serpentine lines, Picasso's pincer-like jaws, the horizontally striped backgrounds, and the vertical lines in the hair of each figure.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.
1946 (ca.), Mark Rothko, Untitled [watercolor] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: This work resembles a half-length portrait with a bulbous head and slender torso. Closer inspection reveals Rothko's debt to Pablo Picasso, specifically the elder artist's surrealist painting of a bather ["Seated Bather"]. There are clear visual rhymes in Rothko's serpentine lines, Picasso's pincer-like jaws, the horizontally striped backgrounds, and the vertical lines in the hair of each figure.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.