Mark Rothko

Herbert Ferber, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1954) 

Acquired by descent from the above in 1991 by the present owner

(possibly) New York, Art of This Century, First Exhibition in America of (Twenty Paintings), 1944, no. 17 (dated 1943)

New York, Art of This Century, Mark Rothko Paintings, 1945, no. 5 (titled Entombment I)

San Francisco Museum of Art and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Oils and Watercolors by Mark Rothko, 1946

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Mark Rothko: Recent Paintings, 1947, no. 12 (titled Entombment)

Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, 1978, fig. 16, p. 31, illustrated; p. 116 (dated 1946 with incorrect dimensions)

New York, Baruch College, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, From Omaha to Abstract Expressionism: American Artists Respond to World War II, 1995, pp. 18 and 28 (with incorrect dimensions)

Brooklyn Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Nashville, Frist Center for the Visual Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Phoenix Art Museum, Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, 2001-03, fig. 57, pp. 80-81, illustrated in color (titled Entombment #1/The Entombment)

New York, David Zwirner Gallery, Herbert Ferber | Mark Rothko, 2018, illustrated in color; illustrated in color (in installation; online)

Teruo Fujieda, “Special Feature: Mark Rothko,” Mizue, vol. 3, no. 888, March 1979, p. 14, illustrated (dated 1946)

Exh. Cat., Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Mark Rothko: Subjects, 1983, p. 21, illustrated; p. 23 (dated circa 1946 and with incorrect dimensions)

Peter Morrin, Anna C. Chave, Robert Rosenblum and Dore Ashton, “Mark Rothko: Subjects,” Art Papers, vol. 8, no. 2, March-April 1984, p. 11

Stephen Polcari, “Mark Rothko: Heritage, Environment and Tradition,” Smithsonian Studies in American Art, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 1988, fig. 19, pp. 48-49, illustrated (dated circa 1946 and with incorrect dimensions)

Anna C. Chave, Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction, New Haven and London, 1989, illustrated (frontispiece); fig. 34, pp. 147 and 149; p. 150, illustrated; pp. 152, 155-56 and 174 (dated mid-1940s and with incorrect dimensions)

Stephen Polcari, Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience, Cambridge, 1991, fig. 66, pp. 129-30, illustrated; p. 133 (dated circa 1946 and with incorrect dimensions)

Stephen Polcari, “From Omaha to Abstract Expressionism: American Artists Respond to World War II,” Stephenpolcari.com, 1995, fig. 14, p. 56, illustrated (dated circa 1946 and with incorrect dimensions; online)

Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, New York, 2000, no. 4.26, p. 109; pp. 112-13, illustrated (dated circa 1946 and with incorrect dimensions)

David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 54, 56 and 66-67; no. 237, p. 215, illustrated in color (titled Entombment I/ The Entombment)

Annie Cohen-Solal, Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, New Haven and London, 2015, pp. 82-83

Robert Rosenblum, "Notes on Rothko's Surrealist Years," Pace Gallery, 18 October 2023 (online)