Mark Rothko: White, Yellow, Red on Yellow, 1953
Softcover
2000 · New York
by Christie's
New York: Christie's, 2000. Softcover. VG (Ex-gallery owned, with few interior marks; pages are tanning lightly; illus. are bright.). Color illus. wraps with translucent titled dust jacket, 32 pp., BW and color illus. Issued in conjunction with an auction of post-war art held in 2000. Lot 10 was Mark Rothko's "White, Yellow, Red on Yellow" (1953). Includes a full annotation and illustrated presentation here, along with essays by Mark Rosenthal and Katherine Smith; and statements by Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, and Robert Ryman. Alas, the bidding did not meet its reserve price, and the painting did not sell that day. You can see it here for far less than the $15M starting price. (Inventory #: 155621)