The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Mark Rothko

Untitled

Auction Closed

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

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)

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