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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | The Macklowe Collection | 10 | $****** - ****** | No. 7 |
paintings
240.7 x 138.8 cm (94.75 x 54.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1951 on the reverse
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick B. McGinnis, Boston (acquired from the above circa 1960)
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston (acquired from the above in 1977)
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in December 1987
Dore Ashton, About Rothko, New York 1983, illustrated in color on the cover (1996 reprint)
Marc Glimcher, ed., The Art of Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World , New York 1991, p. 101, pl. 30, illustrated in color
Nobuyuki Hiromoto, Mark Rothko , Tokyo 1993, no. 18, illustrated in color
Paul Wood, Francis Frascina, et. al., Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties, New Haven and London 1993, p. 7, illustrated in color
Steve Garbarino, “In a Light Mode,” New York Post , 15 March 1997, p. 28, illustrated (in incorrect orientation)
Steven Vincent, “Bonnard and Rothko at PaceWildenstein,” Art & Auction 19, February 1997, p. 42, illustrated
David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London 1998, p. 345, no. 455, illustrated in color
Mark Rothko
1903 - 1970
No. 7
signed and dated 1951 on the reverse
oil on canvas
94 ¾ by 54 ⅝ in. 240.7 by 138.7 cm.