2023-10-15 19:10:46
Self-Portrait, de Mark Rothko, 1936. Collection Christopher Rothko/© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko – Adagp, Paris, 2023
CRITICAL – The Louis Vuitton Foundation is offering the first retrospective of the American painter since that of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 1999. His sensitive and spiritual work invades all of Frank Gehry’s architecture. A correspondence that invites the public to watch, first.
Rothkoit’s a short and sonorous name just like America likes them. “On September 25, 1903 in Dvinsk (today Daugavpils in Latvia), Marcus Rotkovitch was born, the fourth child of the town pharmacist, Yacov Rotkovitch, and his wife Anna Goldin”introduces Annie Cohen-Solal in her vigorous biography, published by Actes Sud in 2013. The historian immediately places the destiny of this youngest member of a liberal family in the turmoil of pogroms which then threatened Jews, even well-established ones, of the Russian Empire, subjects forced to live within the zone of residence.
He left at the age of 10 to join his father and older brothers in America. He arrived at the end of 1913 with his mother and sister at Ellis Island. In 1938, worried about the rise of Nazism in Europe, the man became an American citizen. In 1940, he began calling himself Mark Rothko, but this change was not made official until 1959. “Not so much to conceal its origins, because the name remains Jewish to American ears…
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