Mark Rothko, Saffron
Mark Rothko’s Saffron sold for $32,375,000.
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.
Publisher: Christie’s Inc., November 2017
Kent Albin, Design // Stephen Jones, Text // Archival Texts by Irving Sandler, Mark Rothko, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“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