“[the first ingredient of his work].. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.”
Quote from Rothko's 1958 lecture at the Pratt Institute; as cited in Mark Rothko, a biography, James E. B. Breslin, University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 28
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