Untitled (woman combing her hair)
1932/1933
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watercolor and ink on linen-finish bond paper
Dimensions
sheet: 25.08 × 20.32 cm (9 7/8 × 8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.
Accession Number
1986.56.602
Art Historical Context
**Untitled (woman combing her hair), 1932/1933** Mark Rothko's *Untitled (woman combing hair)* captures an intimate moment from the artist's early career, created when he was in his late twenties. Executed in watercolor and ink on linen-finish bond paper (25.08 × 20.32 cm), this drawing showcases Rothko's initial forays into figurative representation, long before his iconic abstract color fields of the 1940s and 1950s. A gift from The Mark Rothko, Inc., to the National Gallery of Art, it exemplifies his pre-abstraction phase, influenced by the urban energy of Depression-era New York. The wo...
About the Artist
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (born Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) stands as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American art and a central pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. Born into a Jewish family in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils, Latvia), then part of the Russian Empire, Rothko's early life was marked by the fear and persecution faced by Jews in Tsarist Rus...