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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2010 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | 37 | $****** - ****** | No. 18 (Brown and Black on Plum) | |||
May 16, 2001 | Christie's | New York | Post-War | 41 | $****** - ****** | #18 |
paintings
201.9 x 207 cm (79.49 x 81.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'AMSTERDAM MARK ROTHKO 1958 #18' (on the reverse)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Franz Meyer, Sr., Zurich.
By descent to the present owner.
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, II. documenta '59, Kunst nach 1945, July-October 1959, vol. 1, p. 346, no. 3 (illustrated inverted). Zurich, Helmhaus, Konkrete Kunst: 50 Jahre Entwicklung, June-August 1960, p. 47, no. 126 (illustrated). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Polariteit, July-September 1961, no. 115 (illustrated). London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Mark Rothko: A Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings 1945-1960, October 1961-January 1962, no. 32 (illustrated). Kunsthalle Basel, Mark Rothko, March-April 1962, no. 33. Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Mark Rothko, April-May 1962, no. 33 (illustrated). Musée d'Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Mark Rothko, December 1962-January 1963, no. 28. Kunsthalle Basel, Bilanz Internationale Malerei seit 1950 (Aussellung zum 125jährigen Jubiläum), June-August 1964, no. 112 (illustrated). Zurich, Kunsthaus, Der Raum in der amerikanischen Kunst 1948-1968, The Art of the Real USA 1948-1968, January-February 1969. Zurich, Kunsthaus, Mark Rothko, March-May 1971, no. 66. Berlinischen Galerie Museum für moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Stationen der Moderne Die beduetenden Kunstausstellungen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, September 1988-January 1989, p. 453, no. 16/45 (illustrated in color). Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Das Gedächtnis der Malerei, August-November 2000. Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2001-2010 (on extended loan). Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Mark Rothko Retrospective, February-August 2008, pp. 116 and 214, no. 73 (illustrated in color).
G. Habasque, "Au-delà de L'Informel," L'Oeil, 59, November 1959, p. 62 (illustrated). N. Ponente, Modern Painting and Contemporary Trends, Geneva, 1960, p. 143 (illustrated in color). L. Alloway, "Notes on Rothko," Art International, 6, Summer 1962, p. 91 (illustrated). J.G. Moore, The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art, Cleveland and New York, 1968, p. 37 (illustrated in color). D.G. Cleaver, Art: An Introduction, San Diego, 1988, p. 372 (illustrated). D. Anfam, ark Rothko, The Works on Canvas, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 489, no. 627 (illustrated in color).
