Mark Rothko # 16 (Orange, Purple, Orange), 1960 Oil on canvas 94 ½ x 70 inches 240 x 177.8 cm © 1998 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
There are about three scans of this painting I know of, all bad. It’s likely an issue of it not being photographed for years but the pictorial descriptive we read don’t quite fit for any version. This one has orange, and purple but it seems magenta. It’s a bit distressed. There’s a dark version and a light one, very pink. The light one is more lower resolution than this.
I suspect this is the closest of the three, all are gallery sources. Someday we’ll get a good one, and i don’t post this one (and many others) much as i wait for better materials, but occasionally it’s nice to look at something we don’t see all the time, however imperfect.
