Mark Rothko
signed first edition
1970 · Venice / New York
by ROTHKO, MARK & THEODOROS STAMOS
Venice / New York: Museo d'Arte Moderna Ca'Pesaro / Marlborough Gallery, 1970. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by abstract expressionist, Theodoros Stamos, dated December 5, 1970, filling the entire half-title page with a decorative border drawn by Stamos, and reading: “For Alice, with all my thanks and best wishes, Stamos, Dec. 5/70.” Stamos was one of the original group of abstract expressionist painters called the Irascibles, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning. Rothko chose Stamos to be one of his executors. Stamos entered (truncated)