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MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)

Lot 18
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Lot 18 | MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
No. 31 (Yellow Stripe)
signed, partially titled and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1958 #31' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
78 ¼ x 69 ¼ in. (198.8 x 175.9 cm.)
Painted in 1958.




Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
J. Daniel Weitzman, New York, 1961
William Pall Gallery, New York, 1988
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1988
Gallery Urban, Nagoya, 1989
Private collection, New York, 1989
PaceWildenstein, New York, 1995
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1995



Literature

"How They Got That Way," Time, no. 79, 13 April 1962, p. 98 (illustrated; titled and dated Yellow Stripe, 1960).
D. Robbins, "Continuity and Change at Hartford," Art International, vol. 6, no. 8, 25 October 1962, pp. 59 and 61 (illustrated upside down; titled Yellow Stripe).
M. Baranoff, "Recent American Paintings Shown at UT Museum," Austin American-Statesman, vol. 40, no. 45, 26 April 1964, p. 5 (titled Yellow Stripe).
U. Kultermann, The New Painting, Boulder, 1969, p. 121, no. 192 (illustrated; titled Untitled).
D. Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas, Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 492, no. 630 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Continuity and Change: 45 American Abstract Painters and Sculptors, April-May 1962, p. 42, no. 135 (titled Yellow Stripe).
University of Texas at Austin, University Art Museum, Recent American Paintings, Aril-May 1964, n.p., no. 55 (titled Yellow Stripe).
Ridgefield, Larry Aldrich Museum, Brandeis University Creative Arts Awards 1957-1966, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, April-June 1966, n.p., no. 67 (titled Yellow Stripe).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Wege zur Abstraktion, July-September 1989, n.p., no. 79 (illustrated; titled Yellow Stripe).
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