Who painted “No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)”?

“No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)” was painted by Mark Rothko in 1951.

No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) — Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko: huge soft-edged rectangles of colour that seem to glow and float, stacked on a coloured ground.

Mark Rothko (Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Wikipedia

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