Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from the Collection of Pitt and Barbara Hyde, Sold to Benefit the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Mark Rothko
Untitled
Auction Closed
November 14, 01:23 AM GMT
Estimate
7,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Pitt and Barbara Hyde, Sold to Benefit the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Mark Rothko
1903 - 1970
Untitled
signed Mark Rothko, dated 1968 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
39 ⅜ by 26 ⅛ in. 100 by 66.4 cm.
Executed in 1968.
The following work is being considered for inclusion in the forthcoming Mark Rothko Online Resource and Catalogue Raisonné of works on paper, compiled by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bernard and Rebecca Reis, New York (acquired directly from the artist and until at least 1976)
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
Charles Cowles Gallery, Santa Monica
Private Collection, New York
Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York
Acquired from the above in April 2005 by the present owner
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, 1976, no. 126, p. 77 (incorrectly catalogued as tempera on paper mounted on Masonite)