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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 12 | $****** - ****** | UNTITLED |
paintings
175.3 x 127.3 cm (69.02 x 50.12 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1960 on the reverse
The artist
Acquired from the above through a gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1962
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Art: An Environment for Faith, November - December 1965, n.p., illustrated
Santa Barbara, The Art Galleries, University of California, Trends in Twentieth-Century Art: A Loan Exhibition From the San Francisco Museum of Art, January - February 1970, p. 60, no. 30, illustrated
Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Mark Rothko: Ten Major Works, January - March 1974, p. 17, illustrated in color
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art; Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum; Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art; Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna; and Warsaw, National Museum of Poland, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, June 1976 - February 1977, n.p., no. 44 (Baltimore); no. 48, illustrated (Belgrade); no. 49, illustrated (Rome)
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Collectors, Collecting, Collection: American Abstract Art Since 1945, April - June 1977, n.p., no. 4
San Jose, San Jose Museum of Art, America VIII: Post War Modernism, November - December 1977, n.p. (text)
Reno, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art; and Reno, Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, The New York School 1940 - 1960: The First Generation of Abstract Expressionism, February - March 1979, n.p., no. 7, illustrated in color
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture, August 1996 - May 1997
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Making Art Histories: On the Trail of David Park, August 1997 - February 1998, no. 53 (checklist)
Tokyo, Isetan Shinjuku Store; Fukui, Fukui City Art Museum; Wakayama, Museum of Modern Art; and Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts, California Classics: Highlights from the Collection of SFMOMA, July - December 1999, illustrated in color (checklist)
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, October 2001 - April 2002
New York, Haunch of Venison Gallery, Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere, September - November 2008, pp. 100-101, no. 43, illustrated in color
San Francisco Museum of Art, Catalog of the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco, 1970, p. 78, no. 69, illustrated in color
Elena Karina Canavier, "Mark Rothko Paintings," Artweek 5, February 16, 1974, p. 1, illustrated (incorrectly dated 1961)
The Graduate Review Magazine, San Francisco, March 1980, illustrated in color on the cover
Diana C. duPont, Katherine Church Holland, Garna Garren Muller, and Laura L. Sueoka, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, New York, 1985, p. 3, illustrated in color, p. 165, illustrated in color, p. 365, illustrated
Richard Phipps and Richard Wink, Invitation to the Gallery: An Introduction to Art, Dubuque, Iowa, 1987, p. 261, illustrated in color
John Kissick, Art: Context and Criticism, Madison, 1993, p. 407, illustrated in color
Gloria K. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition - 6: The Global Village of the Twentieth Century, Dubuque, Iowa, 1992, p. 90, illustrated in color
David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 532, no. 672, illustrated in color
signed and dated 1960 on the reverse
oil on canvas
69 by 50 1/8 in. 175.3 by 127.3 cm.
