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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 63A | $****** - ****** | No. 16/No. 12 (Mauve Intersection) |
paintings
148.3 x 163.2 cm (58.38 x 64.25 in)
oil on canvas
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above, 1957); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 17 November 1971, lot 8.
Cecil “Titi” Blaffer von Fürstenberg, Houston (acquired at the above sale).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Mark Rothko, January 1950.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, American Painting 1950, April-June 1950.
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Gallery, Paintings by Rothko, Tomlin, Okada, January-February 1957.
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Paintings by Mark Rothko, May 1960.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Mark Rothko, January-March 1961, p. 18, no. 12 (illustrated; dated 1948).
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, 1943-1953: The Decisive Years, January-March 1965.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York School: The First Generation, Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, July-August 1965, p. 183, no. 102 (illustrated; dated 1948).
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Past and Present, April-September 1966.
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts; Bucharest, Dalles Hall; Timi?oara, Museum of Banat; Cluj-Napoca, Galeria de Arta; Bratislava, Slovak National Gallery; Prague, Narodni Galerie, Wallenstein Palace and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image: Paintings in the United States since 1945, November 1968-November 1969, p. 25 (illustrated in color; dated 1948).
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, American Painting 1970, May-June 1970.
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mark Rothko: A Consummated Experience Between Picture and Onlooker, November 2000-April 2001, p. 172, no. 14 (illustrated in color, p. 85).
D. Ashton, “Art: Mark Rothko” in Arts & Architecture, August 1957. p. 8 (illustrated).
H.L. Jaffé, Le grandi epoche dell’arte: L’arte del XX secolo, Florence, 1970, p. 246, no. 374 (illustrated).
I. Sandler, The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, New York, 1970. p. 180, no. 13-5 (illustrated; dated 1948).
M. Tuchman, The New York School: Abstract Expressionism in the 40s and 50s, London, 1970, p. 140, no. 110 (illustrated).
P. Richard, “Phillips Collection to Sell a Rothko” in The Washington Post, 15 November 1971, p. B1 (incorrectly illustrated; dated 1948).
T. Fujieda, “Special Feature: Mark Rothko” in Mizue 888, March 1979, p. 18 (illustrated).
D. Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 2001, p. 306, no. 400 (illustrated in color).
A. Cohen-Solal, Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel (Jewish Lives), New Haven, 2016, pp. 173 and 274.
oil on canvas
58 3/8 x 64 ¼ in. (135.6 x 163.2 cm.)
Painted in 1949
