Top-100 artists:
We use our proprietary AI - LiveArt Estimate™ to calculate current market value for each artwork. Based on this data LiveArt is able to provide numerous insights into artist and artwork financial performance, including:
See the measure of artist investment performance relative to risk. A higher ratio suggests better risk-adjusted returns, indicating more consistent performance with less risk.
Explore the most prolific periods in an artist's career based on artwork production volume and current market value. It also segments these periods by category, offering insights into when the most valuable pieces were created in each category.
Free to sign up. No credit card required.
| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 8, 2017 | Christie's | London | Post War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 11 | $****** - ****** | No. 1 (1949) |
paintings
198.8 x 98.4 cm (78.25 x 38.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1949' verso
Estate of the Artist (1970).
Marlborough Gallery Inc. New York.
Estate of the Artist (1977-1988).
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko.
Acquired by the present owner in 2008.
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Mark Rothko, 1950.
New York, Pace Wildenstein, Rothko: A Painter's Progress The Year 1949, 2004, p. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 41; installation view illustrated on the front cover).
New York, Di Donna Galleries, Paths to the Absolute: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Newman, Pollock, Rothko and Still, 2016, pp. 68 & 90, pl. 10 (illustrated in colour, pp. 69 and 90; installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 23, 44 and 66).
Mark Rothko, exh. cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978 (installation view illustrated, p. 280).
Mark Rothko 1903-1970, exh. cat., London, Tate Gallery, 1987 (installation view illustrated, p. 48).
D. Anfam (ed.), Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven 1998, no. 408 (illustrated in colour, p. 312; installation view illustrated, p. 61; verso illustrated, p. 62).
Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1998, p. 342 (installation view illustrated, p. 339).
A. de Lima Greene (ed.), Mark Rothko: An Essential Reader, Houston 2015 (installation view illustrated, p. 164).
D. Cohen, 'Arts and Letters Gallery-Going: Mark Rothko/Pace Wildenstein' in The New York Sun, February 12 2004 (illustrated, p. 18).
D. Anfam (ed.), Abstract Expressionism, exh. cat., London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2016 (installation view illustrated, p. 95).
estimate upon request
