No. 5/No. 22

Mark Rothko · 1950 (dated on reverse 1949)

This one's called No. 5/No. 22 — a painting by Rothko, nineteen fifty (dated on reverse nineteen forty-nine). It's oil on canvas, about 3 by 2.9 meters. It is one of the largest things in this museum — about 31 times the area of a typical work here.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 9' 9" x 8' 11 1/8" (297 x 272 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 403: No. 5/No. 24, No. 10

More by Mark Rothko here: No. 1 (Untitled), No. 37/No. 19 (Slate Blue and Brown on Plum), Untitled, No. 10, No. 5/No. 24, Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea