White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
- White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
Infobox Painting
title=White Center (Yellow, Pink
and Lavender on Rose)
artist=Mark Rothko
year=1950
type=
height=
width=
museum= Private Collector
"White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)" is an abstract painting by Mark Rothko completed in 1950. The work was sold in May 2007 by Sotheby's on behalf of David Rockefeller [citeweb|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/16/arts/melik17.php|title=A Rothko sells for $72.84 million at record-setting Sotheby's sale|accessdate=2008-01-28|date=2007-05-16|first=Souren|last=Melikian] to the Royal family of Qatar; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned.[Citation | last = Thornton | first = Sarah | last2 = Adam | first2 = Georgina | title = Revealed: $72.8m Rockefeller Rothko has gone to Qatar | newspaper = The Art Newspaper | year = 2008 | date = May 04, 2008 | url = http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7946] The painting sold for 72.84 million (USD), setting the record of the current most expensive post-war work of art sold at auction. [citeweb|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2081570,00.html| title=Warhol goes for $71m in record New York art sale|first=Ed|last=Pilkington|date=2007-05-17] [citeweb|title=Rothko painting sets postwar record|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18688425/|publisher=MSNBC|author=Associated Press|accessdate=2008-01-28] ]"White Center" is part of Rothko's signature multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas. [citeweb|url=http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/classic2a.shtm|title=Mark Rothko|accessdate=2008-01-28]
References
External links
* [http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/ Mark Rothko at Washington's National Gallery of Art]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCe1U7HPUsw Sale of the Painting]
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