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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969 Acrylic on wove paper 71 7/8 x 46 1/4 in. (182.6 x 117.5 cm) Estate/Inventory Number 2064.69 Collection of Christopher Rothko. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Here's a lovely thing you haven't seen before. Rothko painted a few of these tall, dark, and handsome works on paper in 1969. but it used to be very confusing as they would basically all photograph grey. Now I have been able to discern differences in a number of similar paintings thanks to new scans and this one is quite a delight because of it's uniquely strong slate-blue overtones (somewhere around Pantone 430-431 c). I'm a fan of this late work on paper, so I'm very happy to have this.