Mark Rothko

Untitled

Auction Closed

May 13, 09:05 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Global Abstractions: Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

Mark Rothko

1903 - 1970

Untitled

acrylic on paper mounted on board

33 1/4 by 25 1/2 in. 84.5 by 64.8 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.

Estate of the artist (Estate No. 1196.68)
Pace Gallery, New York
Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd., London
Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1983, Lot 414
Marisa del Re Gallery, Inc., New York
Private Collection, Ohio (acquired from the above in 1984)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection, Florida (acquired from the above in 1988)
Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 2006, Lot 51
Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective, October 1978 - September 1979, cat. no. 197B

New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Nine Contemporary American Masters, September - October 1983, illustrated in color

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey; Zacatecas, Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Abstracciones: Nueva York, París, Cuenca, México, November 2015 - June 2016, pp. 136-137 and 220, illustrated in color