Image

Milton Avery, designer

Portrait of Mark Rothko with Pipe, 1936

Description

Maker

Title

Portrait of Mark Rothko with Pipe

Year

1936

Medium

Drypoint

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

18.4 x 17.1 cm (7 3/16 x 6 11/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in pencil, LR margin:Milton Avery 1936; on plate, LL:Milton Avery

Type

Credit

Gift of the estate of Milton Avery

Object Number

67.108

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Facing Artists

February 27 - July 31, 2009

From the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s Milton Avery painted simplified flat forms that influenced a younger group of artists who frequently visited his home studio,
including Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko (American, born Russia, 1903–1970). This drypoint profile view of Rothko casually smoking his pipe, one of several portraits Avery made of Rothko when the artists were neighbors in New York City, conveys their easy rapport.

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