Untitled (Yellow and Blue)

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Untitled (Yellow and Blue)
Mark Rothko , 1954
Oil on canvas
242 × 186 cm
Private collection

Link to the picture
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Untitled (Yellow and Blue) is a painting by the American painter Mark Rothko from 1954.

history

In 1954, Mark Rothko had a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago , his first ever in one of the great American museums. Untitled (Yellow and Blue) was one of the paintings shown in Chicago that are among his most important (Anfam) today . According to Sotheby's, seven other works by Rothko from this exhibition are now in various US museums as well as in Essen and Tehran. ( National Gallery of Art , Washington DC; Yale University Art Gallery , New Haven, USA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art ; The Phillips Collection, Washington; Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD), Folkwang Museum , Essen).

In 1970, immediately after Rothko's death, the picture came into the possession of the banker and art collector Paul Mellon , or his wife Rachel Lambert Mellon, called Bunny Mellon , who occasionally kept the picture in her private rooms. The Mellons loaned the painting, which had been in their possession for 30 years, to the Washington National Gallery of Art for 10 years, along with other Rothkos from their collection.

The next known owner was François Pinault , one of Christie's partners, who loaned the picture in 2006 for an exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. In 2013 it was sold to an anonymous buyer who submitted it to Sotheby’s for the 2015 spring auction . The picture went to a previously unknown - presumably - Asian bidder for $ 46.45 million.


literature

  • David Anfam : Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas. Catalog raisonné. New Haven / London 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sotheby's offering a Rothko Once Owned by Bunny Mellon , accessed May 20, 2019
  2. ↑ WSJ Business, May 12, 2015. Accessed May 15, 2015.