“.. it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes… But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. [his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's]”

—  Mark Rothko

As quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 143
1950's

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