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White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is an abstract painting by Mark Rothko completed in 1950.
2007 sale.
The work was sold in May 2007 by Sotheby's on behalf of David Rockefeller to the Royal family of Qatar; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his wife, Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned. The painting sold for 72.84 million (USD), then setting the record of the current most expensive post-
at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania for their "Abstraction to Figuration: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection" exhibition. It was also later on extended loan at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
2012 auction.
This surpassed the 2007 record price for a Rothko work of $72.8 million set when David Rockefeller sold "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)". The hammer price was $77.5 million, and the price was $86.8 million including buyer's premium. It