No.20Affiche encadrée

No.20 - 1957 holds soft blocks of colour that seem to float and settle into each other. The borders between them are loose rather than sharp, so the eye drifts instead of stopping. It comes out of the colour field years, when Mark Rothko let thin washes of paint do the work.

Hang the framed poster on a chimney breast, a little above seated height, where daylight reaches it without glare. A wood frame suits wooden furniture nearby; a dark frame holds its own against pale plaster.

In the dining room it reads as a warm patch behind the table. From the doorway you catch the blurred joins between the blocks before anything else.