Mark Rothko - Orange, Red, Yellow 1961
Orange, Red, Yellow 1961
236x206cm acrylic on canvas
Sold for: USD 86.9 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 8 May 2012
Seller: Estate of David Pincus
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Christie's:
Orange, Red, Yellow is a large monolith-like canvas exuding a warm and fiery range of shimmering vermillion rectangles over a cooler and thinly painted crimson wash background that Rothko painted at the very height of his career in 1961. A bold, forceful and imposing work that radiates powerfully with an almost epic sense of vitality, it is one of several large and red-hued canvases that Rothko repeatedly painted in the late 1950s and early '60s between the time of the creation of his Seagram murals of 1958 and the Harvard murals of 1961/2.