Orange, Brown, 1963

  • Mark Rothko, American, 1903-1970

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 89 1/2 × 70 inches (227.3 × 177.8 cm)
  • 90 1/8 × 69 1/8 × 2 1/2 inches (228.9 × 175.6 × 6.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

65.8

Signed, verso, center right: MARK ROTHKO | 1963

Inscribed on upper horizontal crossbar member: #202 M. Rothko Signed and dated, verso, center right: MARK ROTHKO | 1963

1963-1965, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc. (New York, New York, USA)

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© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mark Rothko, Orange, Brown, 1963, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 65.8.