Il Preciso

Basalt male torso, 1st century B.C.

"When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them."

-Address at Pratt, 1958

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen

Photo by Eric Keune from the NGA show submitted to me on instagram where he is @erkitekt

52 3/4 × 41 in. (134 × 104.1 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number 2028.69

Collection Jon and Kim Shirley.

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko Artists Rights Society, New York