Mark Rothko, Untitled (Orange, Wine and Grey on Plum), 1961
104 ¾ x 92 ½ in.Collections of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
I’m presenting a second scan of this painting instead of replacing the old one, which I was tempted to do, capriciously, because I just like this one a little better. However, as I’ve droned on about before, with new revelations about lighting in museums, camera light refraction and old printing techniques, it’s become difficult to judge the most accurate scans unless you see the art in person (unless the scans test the limits of common sense). This scan I took from a reputable source, which was the Guggenheim, from a retrospective catalog. I have a very bold dark scan of this paining which I believe it to be inaccurate., but also a 4th scan which is not bad. I’ll show them sometime.
Our old scan is not bad so I am leaving it, but this one happens to be a better source and in between the other two color-wise. Also the dark scan is something see on places like 100museums and the art stack, which I should mention are worthless in terms of scholarship. They are like the equally uncurated wikiart pages which can be great resources to discover art but are rife with misattributions, lousy scans and errors. One thing that frankly annoys me about some of the other *cough* Rothko blogs *cough* which are done by people who post solely from Wikipanting is that these errors get repeated over and over again. It’s not a surprise really, it’s hand in hand with the web’s tendency to turn art into information.
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