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Mark Rothko

Untitled

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November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

30,000,000 - 40,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Mark Rothko

(1903 - 1970)


Untitled

signed and dated 1958 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

91 ⅞ by 69 ½ in. 233.4 by 176.5 cm.

Executed in 1958.

Estate of the artist

The Pace Gallery, New York 

Acquired from the above in April 1981 by the present owner

Kunsthalle Basel, Mark Rothko: Kaaba in New York, February - May 1989, pp. 42, 72, illustrated in color

Marjorie Welish, "Artful Balance," House and Garden, vol. 157, no. 5, May 1985, pp. 166-67, illustrated in color (as Maroon and Gray)

David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas - Catalogue Raisonné, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 637, p. 499, illustrated in color

Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 22, illustrated in color (in installation) 

John Thomason, "Norton's New Exhibition a Trove of Contemporary Art Riches," Boca Magazine, 16 March 2022 (online)