Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

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Property from the Ferber Collection

Mark Rothko

No. 6

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Ferber Collection

Mark Rothko

(1903 - 1970)


No. 6 

signed MARK ROTHKO (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

60 ⅛ by 47 in. 

152.7 by 119.4 cm. 

Executed in 1947. 

Herbert Ferber, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1949) 

Acquired by descent from the above in 1991 by the present owner

David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 57 and 67; no. 356, p. 279, illustrated in color

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Mark Rothko: Recent Paintings, 1948 

New York, David Zwirner Gallery, Herbert Ferber | Mark Rothko, 2018, illustrated in color (in installation; online)