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Paris blockbuster to look at how Mark Rothko was once a struggling realist

Fondation Louis Vuitton show will go beyond the artist's colour field works and considers his early focus on homelessness, unemployment and the banality of the commute

Matthew Holman
29 September 2023
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“The pained banality of the commute”: Mark Rothko’s Untitled (The Subway) (1937), an early work depicting a New York City subway station © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko—Adagp, Paris, 2023
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31 May 1998

Shedding light on Rothko’s light: Abstract Expressionism at the National Gallery of Art

The biggest show of the artist’s work for over twenty years derails the view that his highly charged colour-field paintings were a reflection of his moods

Kenneth Baker