Artist: Mark Rothko (Latvian/American, 1903-1970). Title: "Untitled (Olive Green) [small-scale]". Medium: Oil on wood panel. Date: Composed 1969. Dimensions: Overall size: 13 3/4 x 10 in. (349 x 254 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed verso. Fine condition; as painted. Comment(s): Rothko, of Jewish descent, was born Markus Yakovlevich Rotkovich in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate, in the Russian Empire (today Daugavpils in Latvia). Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any particular art movement he is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist, and with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning is one of the most famous postwar American artists. Image copyright © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29927-3-16000]