Untitled / Untitled (Black on Grey)

A group of paintings created by Mark Rothko now known as a series including works on canvas ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} and paper ^[9] produced before the artists' death by suicide. ^[10]

The series has works which used both a combination of black and grey,^[1] or are monotone black,^[9] or with only a small quantity of color.^[11] The artists' works include an expression of color as more wholly dark, absent in previous works, from sometime during the 1950s.^[11]

Some of the serial of works were gifted by The Mark Rothko Foundation Incorporated to various city galleries in the United States, including: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,^[12] the Guggenheim^[2] and Museum of Modern Art of New York,^[3] the National Gallery of Art in Washington.^[5]

Altogether during 1970 the artist Rothko output three works ^[13] of these ${\displaystyle [}$ ACCESSION 85.27${\displaystyle ]}$ is possessed by MoCA LA: Untitled the final in the grey-black serial painting.^[12] Although black with or without grey was the theme of Rothko's end works his penultimate painting Untitled included blue. The termination of Rothko's art and life in 1970 was death,^[13] his final product, red only.^{[13] [a]}

Suicide of Mark Rothko