White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is a painting by Mark Rothko . The picture, created in 1950, was auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2007 for a record price of $ 72.8 million .
| White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) |
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| Mark Rothko , 1950 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 205.8 x 141.0 cm |
| Private collection Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Musa bint Nasser al-Missned, Qatar
Link to the picture |
history
The picture has a flawless provenance . It had been in the possession of David Rockefeller for 47 years , who bought it from Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson in 1960 for approximately $ 8,500 after the picture was curated in Rothko's first exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art . had been shown. Bliss Parkinson was the niece of Lillie P. Bliss , one of the founders of MoMA and a long-time member of the Board of Trustees. Until 2007 it hung in Rockefeller's office in the Chase Manhattan Bank . In the auction on May 3, when the painting was presented in a prominent position next to one of Francis Bacons ' Pope portraits, it was bought at an estimated price of $ 40 million by a telephone bidder for Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and his wife Sheikha Musa bint Nasser al-Missned for a total of $ 72.8 million. In this auction, Rothko's picture beat the record as the most expensive Rothko ever traded and as the most expensive picture by a post-war artist at all.
literature
- David Anfam: Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas. Catalog raisonné. New Haven, London 1998. Cat. No. 444.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carol Vogel: High Hopes for a Rothko Painting at Auction , The New York Times, March 22, 2007, accessed May 23, 2019
- ↑ Callen Biar: Rockefeller's Rothko Rocks Auction , accessed May 23, 2019
- ^ Christofer Benfey: The Branding of Rothko. 2007.
- ^ White Center, 1950 Mark Rothko from markrothko.org, accessed April 17, 2015.