Lot 157
157
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
PROPERTY FROM A FLORIDA COLLECTOR
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)

Untitled (Portrait of Leah Farber)

Price realised USD 134,500
Estimate
USD 60,000 – USD 80,000
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970)

Untitled (Portrait of Leah Farber)

Price realised USD 134,500
Price realised USD 134,500
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Untitled (Portrait of Leah Farber)
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'Painted by Marcus Rothkowitz (Mark Rothko - 1927) Leah Farber' (on the reverse)
oil on canvasboard
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.4 cm.)
Painted in circa 1927
Provenance
Leah Farber, New York
Leah and Samuel Schimmel, New York and Jerusalem
Herbert and Esther Schimmel, Nashua
By descent to the present owner
Literature
D. Anfam, Mark Rothko, The Works on Canvas Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1998, p. 111, no. 8 (illustrated in color).

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