A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

Mark Rothko

Untitled

Live auction begins on:

November 18, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

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Description

Mark Rothko

(1903 - 1970)

Untitled

signed MARK ROTHKO and dated illegibly (on a piece of canvas affixed to the reverse)

oil on paper, mounted on Masonite

39 ¾ by 26 ¼ in.

99.1 by 66.7 cm.

Executed circa 1953.

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

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1970)

Hubert de Givenchy, Paris (acquired from the above circa 1971)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in December 1992)

C&M Arts, New York (acquired from the above in September 1993)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1993)

C&M Arts, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in May 1998)

Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Kunsthaus Zürich; Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; London, Hayward Gallery; and Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Mark Rothko, 1971-72, no. 25, pp. 42-43, illustrated in color (Zürich) (illustration inverted, catalogued as tempera on paper and titled Red, Blue and Pink on Yellow); no. 25, pp. 42-43, illustrated in color (Berlin) (catalogued as tempera on paper and titled Rot, Blau und Rosa auf Gelb); no. 25, n.p., illustrated in color (Rotterdam) (illustration inverted, catalogued as tempera on paper and titled Rood, blauw en roze op geel); no. 18, pp. 16-17, illustrated in color (Paris) (illustration inverted, catalogued as tempera on paper and titled Rouge, bleu et rose sur jaune)