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Property Sold to Benefit Jonas Philanthropies

Mark Rothko

The Journey

Session begins in

May 15, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold to Benefit Jonas Philanthropies

Mark Rothko

1903 - 1970


The Journey

signed (lower right)

watercolor and ink on paper mounted on canvas

39 ⅞ by 26 in.

101.3 by 66 cm.

Executed in 1946.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Mark Rothko Online Resource and Catalogue Raisonné of works on paper, compiled by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. 

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston 

Sotheby's Los Angeles, 27 February 1974, lot 400 

Marisa del Re Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1974 by the present owner

Greenwich, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas, January - April 1998, p. 54, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, pl. 35, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 183

Molly Warnock, "The Expanse: The Art of Mark Rothko," Artforum 62, no. 7, April 2024, pp. 98-99, illustrated in color