

It has the color wheel that many people learn about in early art classes. The RYB color model is most commonly used for physical art mediums like paints and colored pencils.

They’re usually referred to as a combination of the colors they’re mixed with, but sometimes they’re called by specific names, such as chartreuse, amber, and magenta. There are six tertiary colors on the RYB color model: yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, and yellow-green. Those two colors usually sit next to each other on the color wheel.

Retrieved May 16, 2012.Tertiary colors are colors that are a mix of one primary color and one secondary color. "Munch, Pollock and Calder help New York's auction houses notch up $1.42 billion: Edvard Munch's The Scream and Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow set new records in big fortnight of sales". in Highest Contemporary Art Auction Ever, Led by Record $87 M. "Rothko Leads a Record Contemporary Art Sale". ^ a b c d e f Melikian, Souren (May 9, 2012).Souren Melikian of The New York Times described Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow as one that ".can convincingly be argued to be the most powerful of all his pictures", Kelly Crow of The Wall Street Journal stated that "The painting's trio of orange and yellow rectangles bobbing atop a cherry-red background forms a palette that's as eye-catching as a sunset or a Popsicle.", noting that "Auction specialists say collectors historically pay more for works that are red and gold, as opposed to gray." See also The bidding extended for over six and a half minutes, which is ".one of the longest bidding matches yet witnessed in a contemporary art sale." Critical commentary When the record-setting 2012 auction price reached $70 million, three bidders remained competitive. The price for Rothko's painting was expected to top out near $45 million based on presale estimates. In constant dollars, the record price for post-war art at a public auction remained with Triptych, 1976 by Francis Bacon, sold at Sotheby's for $86.3 million in May 2008 (~$92 million in May 2012 dollars). The highest price paid for a post-war painting in a private sale is believed to be $140 million (~$160 million in May 2012 dollars) for Jackson Pollock's No. It established a new record for post-war/ contemporary art at a public auction, when ignoring inflation. The hammer price was $77.5 million, and the price was $86.8 million including buyer's premium. This surpassed the 2007 record price for a Rothko work of $72.8 million set when David Rockefeller sold White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose). It was also later on extended loan at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From June to December 1996 it was exhibited by the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania for their "Abstraction to Figuration: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection" exhibition. From September to November 1986 it was exhibited by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in its "Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940" exhibition. From February to March 1964, it was exhibited at the Marlborough New London Gallery in London in a Mark Rothko exhibition. The work has not been on the market in the 45 years since Pincus' acquisition. Pincus is regarded as one of the leading American collectors in the second half of the 20th century. Marlborough Fine Art sold the work to David Pincus in 1967. The work was acquired by Marlborough Fine Art in London from the Marlborough-Gerson gallery in New York.
