Contemporary Curated
Contemporary Curated
MARK ROTHKO | SUBWAY
Auction Closed
October 2, 08:56 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
MARK ROTHKO
1903 - 1970
SUBWAY
signed; signed Rothkowitz and titled on the strainer; signed on the reverse
oil on canvas
40⅛ by 30⅛ in. 101.9 by 76.5 cm.
framed: 41¼ by 31¼ in. 104.8 by 79.4 cm.
Executed in 1939.
Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Francis V. O'Conner, Ed., The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs, Washington, D.C. 1972, p. 123, illustrated (incorrectly dated circa 1936)
Diane Waldman, Mark Rothko in New York, New York 1994, cat. no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color
David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London 1998, cat. no. 166, p. 181, illustrated in color