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In a work created in 1951, the 241 cm high canvas is painted in lavender, green and dark red. The New York auction house Sotheby’s planned to sell the work, which was put up for auction for the first time, for 70-90 million US dollars.
The identity of the buyer is not revealed, but people representing customers from Asia actively bid at the auction by telephone.
Rothko’s paintings will reach a record high in 2012, when Christie’s, an orange, red, yellow auction house in New York, sold $ 86.9 million.
“No. 7” is one of the works of famous artists, which is auctioned off from the collection of Maklov, created during 45 years by the American real estate magnate Harry Maclov and his wife Linda. In 2018, during a couple’s divorce, a judge in New York decided that the art collection should be sold and the proceeds distributed.
The work “Le Nez” (“Nose”), created in 1947 by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, is also on auction at the auction. The author of the world’s most expensive sculpture has sold for 78.4 million US dollars.
Andy Warhol’s 1962 screenprint “Nine Marilyns,” created shortly after Marilyn Monroe’s death, sold for $ 48.5 million. Meanwhile, the 1964 work Blackteen Jackies, in honor of former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, was sold for $ 33.9 million.
Jackson Polok’s “Number 17, 1951” was purchased for $ 61.2 million, the highest price for any of this American abstractionist’s work.
Say Twombley’s first-time auction of Untitled 2007, with its abstract red peonies, was sold for $ 58.9 million.
Sotheby’s said the 65 works in Maklov’s collection are “an unbeatable ensemble that marks the heights of Western artistic achievement over the past 80 years.”
The auction of the collection is divided into two parts. The remaining about 40 works will be auctioned in May next year.
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