Mark Rothko
No. 14
1960
Mark Rothko's 'No. 14' (1960) is a defining Abstract Expressionist colour-field painting, setting broad rectangles of black and deep blue atop a saturated red ground. The edges of the forms are deliberately feathered so that the blocks appear to hover in suspended air, vibrating against each other, and the enormous scale is calibrated for the viewer to stand close and stay long. A peak work of Rothko's mature period, it is among the most frequently exhibited modern paintings in the permanent collection of SFMOMA.
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