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MARK ROTHKO | UNTITLED (UNDERWATER SERIES)

Auction Closed

June 30, 09:53 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

MARK ROTHKO

1903 - 1970

UNTITLED (UNDERWATER SERIES)


signed

watercolor and ink on paper

11⅛ by 16 in. 28.3 by 40.6 cm.

framed: 18½ by 22½ in. 47 by 57.2 cm.

Executed circa 1946.


This work is being considered for inclusion in the forthcoming Mark Rothko Online Resource and Catalogue Raisonné of works on paper, compiled by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. 

Collection of Nancy and Jesse Weisman, New York (gift of the artist)

Thence by descent to the present owner in 1994

Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Mysterious and Magical Realism, April - August 1980, cat. no. 54