The painting in question, then, would have to be Mark Rothko's 1951 painting No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red). The piece is among Rothko's best; it graces the cover of the artist's catalogue ...

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New York (AFP) - A Mark Rothko painting sold for $46.5 million ... also broke his own record with a work called "Untitled (Into and Behind the Green Eyes of the Tiger Monkey Face)".