White Center (Yellow, Pink

and Lavender on Rose) Artist Mark Rothko Year 1950 Dimensions 205.8 cm × 141 cm (81.0 in × 56 in) Location The Royal family of Qatar

White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is an abstract painting by Mark Rothko completed in 1950.

2007 sale [ edit ]

The work was sold in May 2007 by Sotheby's on behalf of David Rockefeller[1] to the Royal family of Qatar; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his wife, Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned.[2] 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.[3][4]

Description [ edit ]

White Center is part of Rothko's signature multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas.[5]

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.

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