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No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) is a 1951 painting by the Latvian-American expressionist artist Mark Rothko. It was painted in 1951. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, No. 6 consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades. In 2014, it became one of the most expensive paintings sold at auction. [1]
Mark Rothko (/ ˈ r ɒ θ k oʊ / ROTH-koh; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.
Souren Melikian of The New York Times described Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow as one that "...can convincingly be argued to be the most powerful of all his pictures", [2] Kelly Crow of The Wall Street Journal stated that "The painting's trio of orange and yellow rectangles bobbing atop a cherry-red background forms a palette that's as eye-catching as a sunset or a Popsicle," noting that ...
No 1 (Royal Red and Blue) is a 1954 Color Field painting by the Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. In November 2012, the painting sold for US$75.1 million (£47.2m) at a Sotheby's auction. [1] [2]
The artist's former studio is now a skylit four-bedroom duplex tucked away inside a historic 19th-century carriage house at 155 E. 69th St.
Mark Rothko: 1951 August 2014: 3 Cherise Moueix: Dmitry Rybolovlev: Private sale via Yves Bouvier [29] $231 $180 (€160 million) Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit: Rembrandt: 1634 February 1, 2016 [30] 7 Éric de Rothschild: Rijksmuseum and Louvre: Private sale [31] $230.6 $179.4 Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O") Pablo ...
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White Center is part of Rothko's distinctive multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas. [1] The painting is structured vertically, starting with a yellow horizontal rectangle at the top, a black horizontal strip, a narrow white rectangular band and the bottom half is lavender.