Mark Rothko, Entrance to Subway, 1938, Oil on canvas, cm 86,4x117,5- Collection, Kate Rothko Prizel.

ROME, ITALY.- The major solo exhibitions devoted to this American painter of Russian origin in Italy have been few and far between. There was the retrospective, organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York while he was still alive, which came to the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome in 1962; and the commemorative retrospective held at Ca’ Pesaro in the ambit of the 1970 Venice Biennale, immediately after the artist’s tragic death.

On 15 May 2007, Rothko’s White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) was sold for 72.8 million US dollars at Sotheby’s in New York to a private buyer, whose name was not revealed, and this will probably make it much harder to obtain the artist’s works on loan for temporary exhibitions.

Hence, this Mark Rothko retrospective curated by Oliver Wick and produced by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and Arthemisia, will give visitors a unique opportunity to see a vast selection of works by one of the greatest artists of the last century.

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