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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 30, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 23 | $****** - ****** | No. 10 | |||
May 11, 2005 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art - Evening Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | No. 10 |
paintings
153 x 73.6 cm (60.24 x 28.98 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1949 on the reverse
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York Mr and Mrs Joseph Bransten, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1950)
Mr John Bransten, San Francisco (by descent from the above in 1980)
Sale: Christieâs, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, 11 May 2005, Lot 26 (consigned by the estate of John Bransten)
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Mark Rothko, 1950 Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 37th Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Paintings, 1950, n.p., no. 68; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, 20th Anniversary Exhibition: The Museum and its Collections â Collections of Modern Art in the Bay Area, 1955, n.p.; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Modern Masters in West Coast Collections: An Exhibtion Selected in Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1935-1960, 1960, n.p.; Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Le Feu sous les cendres â De Picasso à Basquiat, 2005-06, p. 10, illustrated in colour; Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Mark Rothko, 2007, p. 129, no. 16, illustrated in colour; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge: Von Rembrandt bis Picasso, 2007, p. 129, no. 16, illustrated in colour; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge: Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 467, no. 225, illustrated in colour; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Mark Rothko, 2007-08, p. 132, no. 54, illustrated in colour and p. 212, installation view; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Mark Rothko: Retrospektive, 2008, p. 89, no. 54, illustrated in colour
Belle Krasne, âMark of Rothkoâ, The Art Digest, No. 24, 15 January 1950, p. 17 Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (and travelling), Mark Rothko 1903-1970: A Retrospective, 1978-79, p. 280, installation view; Dore Ashton, About Rothko, New York 1983, p. 116, no. 23, installation view; David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London 1998, p. 319, no. 417, illustrated in colour; Exhibition Catalogue, Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mark Rothko âA consummated experience between picture and onlooker', 2001, p. 24, installation view
