The second chapter of 125 Newbury's survey of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb's early careers will open this November in New York. Announced on Pace's official Instagram account on October 16, 'Rothko/Gottlieb: The Surrealist Years' runs from November 13, 2026 through January 9, 2027 at the gallery's Tribeca space at 395 Broadway.

The exhibition follows last year's 'Gottlieb/Rothko: The Realist Years' at the same venue, extending the story into the 1940s. It brings together paintings and works on paper made between 1941 and 1951, the decisive decade in which both artists moved away from the figurative painting of their youth and toward the dreamlike imagery of surrealism, a shift shaped by the dislocations of wartime and postwar life.

The announcement frames the period as the moment when painting itself was searching for a new visual language to answer a world that had been remade by conflict. For Rothko and Gottlieb, whose friendship stretched back to late-1920s New York, that language would eventually lead each of them toward abstraction and, in time, to central roles in the New York School.

125 Newbury is the Tribeca project space founded by Pace founder Arne Glimcher, known for revisiting underexamined episodes in modern art history. The sequel format is unusual for a commercial gallery and signals the institution's appetite for sustained scholarly programming alongside its market activity.

The announcement imagery leans on Rothko's 'Gethsemane' (1945), a painting made squarely in the period under review, underscoring how the show roots itself in works rather than retrospectives of the artists' later fame. It is the second year in a row that 125 Newbury has devoted its autumn slot to the pair, following 'Gottlieb/Rothko: The Realist Years' in summer 2025, which traced their parallel development through the 1920s and 1930s.