ORANGE AND RED ON RED

This painting has a large deep orange square above a red square floating on a deep red ground. In the 1960s Rothko mostly painted in deep red and browns, this painting is exemplary of this period.

DETAILS:

1957
Oil On Canvas
68 7/8 x 66 3/8 in.
Phillips Collection
Acquired 1960
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York