MARK ROTHKO
Saffron
Publisher: Christie’s Inc., November 2017
Candace Wetmore, Editor
Kent Albin, Design
Stephen Jones, Text
Archival Texts by Irving Sandler, Mark Rothko, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The Painting.
Mark Rothko’s Saffron sold for $32,375,000 in November 2017 at Christie’s in New York.
The Book.
This beautiful hardcover was published to coincide with the sale of Mark Rothko’s Saffron at Christie’s New York in November 2017.
“The tension of the color-relationships of some of the Rothko paintings I have seen has been raised to such a shrill pitch that one begins to feel in them that a fission might happen, that they might detonate.”
— Hubert Crehan