Untitled. 1969

Medium: oil, acrylic on canvas.
Size: 233,7 x 200,3 cm.
Location: Daugavpils Mark Rothko art centre, Daugavpils , Latvia.

This painting is small in size and its black-and-gray palette resembles a night landscape or a photograph in moonlight. In the late period of his career, Mark Rothko refused from pure and bright hues with which he used to work, and turned to darker and gloomier tones. Such a change, most likely, was associated with depressive states often experienced by the artist and his dissatisfaction with his own results, despite the popularity of his paintings. Rothko showed art critics his series of works in black and white colors, which turned out to be his last works. Unfortunately, they did not take those paintings seriously; this aggravated the psychological state of the artist.