Mark Rothko
Untitled (Black on Grey)
1970
One of Mark Rothko's final 'Black on Gray' paintings (1969–1970), reduced to two horizontal bands — a dark black above, a cold, unmixed grey below. Painted in the months before his suicide in February 1970 as his health collapsed, the series is widely interpreted as a meditation on the threshold of silence and death. Tate Modern holds one of the most searing examples in its dedicated Rothko room.
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