LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

113.74 in. (288.90 cm.) (height) by 67.52 in. (171.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled #1 and dated 1954 on the reverse

Literature:

Margy P. Sharpe, ed., The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington, D.C., 1976, p. 244, illustrated; David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1998, cat. no. 503, p. 386, illustrated in color, and fig. 80, p. 73, illustrated (as exhibited at Sidney Janis, 1955); Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Mark Rothko, 2000, p. 16, illustrated (as exhibited at Sidney Janis, 1955); Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mark Rothko, 2001, fig. 13, p. 26, illustrated (as exhibited at Sidney Janis, 1955); Glenn Phillips and Thomas Crow, eds., Seeing Rothko, Los Angeles, 2005, fig. 1, p. 27, illustrated (as exhibited at Sidney Janis, 1955)

Provenance:

Marlborough A.G., Liechtenstein/ Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York (acquired from the artist in 1969); Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Washington (acquired from the above in 1970, Estate no. 5018.54); Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1978); Sandra Canning Kasper, New York (acquired from the above in 1978); Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller, New York (acquired from the above in 1978); Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1982