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Property of A Private Collector

MARK ROTHKO | TWO WOMEN AT A WINDOW

Lot Closed

October 6, 04:56 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of A Private Collector

MARK ROTHKO

1903 - 1970

TWO WOMEN AT A WINDOW


signed

oil on canvas

Canvas: 40 by 30 in. (101.6 by 76.2 cm.)

Framed: 48⅞ by 38⅞ in. (124.8 by 101.3 cm.)

Executed circa 1937.

US Administration, Works Progress Administration (acquired circa 1937)

Henry C. Roberts, New York (acquired from the above in 1943)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1944)

Ira Smolin, New York (acquired from the above in 1961)

Jason McCoy Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 2007

David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, National Gallery of Art, New Haven 1998, cat. no. 101, illustrated p. 153

"How They Got That Way", Time 79, 13 April 1962, illustrated in color, p. 98

Daniel Robbins "Continuity and Change at Hartford," Art International 6, 25 October 1962, illustrated, p. 69

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Continuity and Change: 45 American Abstract Painters and Sculptors, April - May 1962, cat. no. 133, illustrated, p. 42 (exhibition catalogue)