The Louis Vuitton Foundation organizes this autumn a retrospective on Mark Rothko in Paris. This exhibition, makes the first retrospective on Rothko held in France since 1999.
The Louis Vuitton Foundation organizes this autumn a retrospective on Mark Rothko in Paris. This exhibition, that makes the first retrospective on Rothko held in France since 1999, will display 115 pieces led by various international institutional and private collections including the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Tate in London and the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., also including the artist's own family collection.
This exhibition, that makes the first retrospective on Rothko held in France since 1999, will display 115 pieces led by various international institutional and private collections
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz on September 25, 1903, in Dvinsk, Russia. In 1913 his family left Russia and settled in Portland, Oregon. Rothko attended Yale University, New Haven, on a scholarship from 1921 to 1923. He left Yale prematurely and moved to New York. In 1925 he studied under Max Weber at the Art Students League. He participated in his first group exhibition at the Opportunity Galleries, New York, in 1928. During the early 1930s Rothko became a close friend of Milton Avery and Adolph Gottlieb. His first solo show took place at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, in 1933.
He participated in his first group exhibition at the Opportunity Galleries, New York, in 1928.
Displayed chronologically across all of the Foundation's spaces, hosted the Foundation building, Frank Gehry's architectural masterpiece, in Paris, the exhibition traces the artist’s entire career: from his earliest figurative paintings to the abstract works that he is most known for today. The exhibition opens with intimate scenes and urban landscapes – such as visions of the New York subway – that dominate Rothko’s output in the 1930s, before his transition to a repertoire inspired by ancient myths and surrealism which Rothko uses to express the tragic dimension of the human condition during the War.
The exhibition traces the artist’s entire career: from his earliest figurative paintings to the abstract works that he is most known for today.
The exhibition is curated by Suzanne Páge Louis Vuitton Foundations artistic director and Christopher Rothko, Mark Rothko´s son, with the collaboration of François Michaud, Ludovic Dealalande, Claudia Buizza, Magdalena Gemra and Cordelia de Brosses.
The exhibition is curated by Suzanne Páge Louis Vuitton Foundations artistic director
Also as part of the Mark Rothko exhibition, german-british composer and pianist Max Ritcher calls the foundation home for an exceptional residency. This unique programme of concerts and musical promenades is divided into three phases over the course of the exhibition: in November 2023, January 2023 and March 2024. For this residency, the Fondation asked Max Richter to compose a singular piece, a worldwide premiere intimately tied to the world of American painter Mark Rothko. An essential figure in neoclassical music, Richter is considered one of the main influences for post-minimalist composers.
The Fondation asked Max Richter to compose a singular piece, a worldwide premiere intimately tied to the world of the painter Mark Rothko.
