Christie's put up for auction on May 11 unknown painting by Mark Rothko price of $ 22 million
Another intriguing lot - picture by Roy Lichtenstein, who at one time had cost the owner $ 10
Mark Rothko
Untitled number 17. 1961
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Roy Lichtenstein
sketch for the painting "The Kiss" V
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According to Bloomberg.com, May 11 at Christie's auction in New York will work is unknown Mark Rothko . Painting "Untitled number 17" with a picture of pink and red rectangles on the tangerine-yellow background is estimated at $ 22 million.
composition was written in 1961 and not been exhibited since 1965 th. She is one of ten paintings, whose existence became known after publication of the catalog-Raisonné Rothko in 1998. Says cataloguer critic David Anfam (DavidAnfam), soon after the painting went into a private collection whose owners chose not to disclose the details of the collecting his work.
In 1961 (the year when hosted a retrospective of the artist in the Museum of Modern Art in New York), Rothko wrote the 22 paintings, most in dark colors. Untitled № 17 "refers to the period between two important milestones in the master's later works - namely, the implementation panel for the Seagram Building in New York and the creation of a series of paintings for Harvard University.
What is the evidence of the authenticity of the pictures? Anfam said that it persuaded the sensitivity of the material and "branded" items: for example, from the red comes through a pale olive green, which makes the work of "threatening" tone. In addition, the type of stretcher "correct". "Everything indicates that this is the Rothko" - says Anfam.
most expensive work of masters - in 1950 painting" White Center "sold at Sotheby's auction in 2007 for 72.8 million dollars . Put a picture up for auction by David Rockefeller (David Rockefeller), and bought her the Emir of Qatar and his wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned.
«The best selling work of Rothko's saturated, bright colors as well as paintings with the most ranked combination of composition and color, "- says Christie's specialist in postwar and contemporary art Laibach, Jonathan (Jonathan Laib). The greatest interest in the artist's work showing buyers from Europe and the U.S., as well as from Russia and the Middle East.
At the same auction will be "Design for the painting" The Kiss "V» Roy Lichtenstein ( Roy Lichtenstein), who also "hiding" in a private collection for decades. The owner of the picture won it in a lottery in 1965 (a lottery ticket worth $ 10). Then, a similar sketch can be bought for $ 50, and now he gave 0,8-1,2 million estimate.
Christie's has recently put up for auction "unknown" work - self-portrait by Andy Warhol, who brought 10.8 million pounds sterling (17,4 million dollars) in assessing 3 -5000000 .
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