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
New York, Riverside Museum, The First Annual Exhibition of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, March 1941, cat. no. 117
New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective, October 1978 - January 1979
Brooklyn Museum, December 1981 - July 2019 (on extended loan)
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mark Rothko: A Consummated Experience Between Picture and Onlooker, November 2000 - April 2001, cat. no. 166, p. 172, illustrated in color
New York, PaceWildenstein, Mark Rothko: The Realist Years, October 2001 - January 2002