LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

92.99 in. (236.20 cm.) (height) by 81.26 in. (206.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1961' (on the reverse); signed again and with initials 'M. Rothko M.B.' (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

London, Marlborough New London Gallery, Mark Rothko, February-March 1964, no. 4 (illustrated in color). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940, September-November 1986, p. 20 (illustrated in color). University Park, Pennsylvania State University, Palmer Museum of Art, Abstraction to Figuration: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection, June-December 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art (on extended loan).

Literature:

H. Rosenberg, "After Next, What?," Art in America, no. 52, April 1964, p. 69 (illustrated in color, inverted). D. Sylvester, ed., Modern Art: From Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism, New York, 1965, p. 303 (illustrated in color, inverted). D. Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1998, p. 550, no. 693 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York. Marloborough Fine Art, Ltd., London. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1967.