Year 1950 Dimensions 2.06 m x 1.41 m Media Oil paint | Artist Mark Rothko Location Private collection Created 1950 | |
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Periods Color Field, Washington Color School Similar Mark Rothko artwork, Oil paintings, Abstract art | ||
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is an abstract painting by Mark Rothko completed in 1950.
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2007 sale
The work was sold in May 1998 by Sotheby's on behalf of David Rockefeller to the Royal family of Qatar; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his wife, Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned. The painting sold for 72.84 million (USD), then setting the record of the current most expensive post-war work of art sold at auction.
Description
White Center is part of Rothko's signature multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas.
The painting is from top to bottom, a yellow horizontal rectangle, a black horizontal strip, a narrow white rectangular band and the bottom half is lavender. The top half of the rose ground is deeper in colour and the bottom half is pale. It measures 205.8 × 141 cm.