Meister,
And what is known about this job? Year, size, technique? If it is 1956 or close, then why not? Let not the 72 million dollars, but 65 million - the same order.
Here
http://www.bolero.ru/books/9785956101926.html sold Rothko interesting album with a biography and a good example, where you can see period moving. I recommend, the other anyway. It shows how the power of the 1950's contrasts with the power of the late 1960's. In the late 60's doctors ordered him to write great work (something with an aneurysm of the aorta is connected) and he did little drawings, sometimes cheerful, but not that. But in mid-1950 he went completely masshtabnvye things.
By the way, Rothko's early figurative periods like Slepysheva
