Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, by the American painter Mark Rothko (1903–1970). The overwhelming yet placid sheets of color merging into one another recall the musical technique in compositions such as Ligeti’s Lux aeterna. Mark Rothko, Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red), 1949, Oil on canvas, 81 1/2 × 66 inches (207 × 167.6 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, Elaine and Werner Dannheisser and The Dannheisser Foundation, 78.2461.© 1998 Kath Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.