"Other Big-Ticket Items" - Blog #4

'Orange, Red, Yellow'

Est: $35 million to $45 million

More than 7 feet tall, this oil on canvas is part of a private collection included in Christie's contemporary sale. The auction house bills the 1961 painting as the most important work by Rothko since "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)," which sold for $72.8 million at Sotheby's in 2007, a sum that has yet to be matched for another Rothko work at auction.