In 1968, a year after he finished his legendary series of black murals for his eponymous chapel at the Menil Collection in Houston and just a few months after suffering an aneurysm that nearly killed him, Mark Rothko turned to painting smaller pictures in acrylic on paper laid down on canvas.

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Elephant dung is one of many materials the artist uses in his works, which draw on collage techniques and employ acrylic paint, paper collage, glitter and map pins on canvas.

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