The artwork titled “No. 6 (Yellow, White, Blue Over Yellow on Gray)” by Mark Rothko, created in 1954, belongs to the Color Field Painting movement. This abstract piece, rendered in oil, measures 240 x 151.8 cm.
The artwork employs a minimalist yet powerful composition featuring broad swaths of color, characteristic of Rothko’s oeuvre. Dominated by sizable, horizontally-aligned rectangles, the piece displays a vivid yellow at the top, followed by a subtler white section, a narrow strip of yellow, and a bold blue at the bottom. This assemblage of colors appears to float on a subdued gray background. The colors, while simple in themselves, evoke depth and emotion through their juxtaposition and subtle variations in tone. The boundaries of the color fields are soft and blurred, a signature technique used by Rothko to create a sense of infinite space and contemplation within the viewer.