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Property from the Ferber Collection

Mark Rothko

No. 6

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Ferber Collection

Mark Rothko

(1903 - 1970)


No. 6 

signed MARK ROTHKO (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

60 ⅛ by 47 in. 

152.7 by 119.4 cm. 

Executed in 1947. 

Herbert Ferber, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1949) 

Acquired by descent from the above in 1991 by the present owner

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Mark Rothko: Recent Paintings, 1948 

New York, David Zwirner Gallery, Herbert Ferber | Mark Rothko, 2018, illustrated in color (in installation; online)

David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 57 and 67; no. 356, p. 279, illustrated in color