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No. 20 (Yellow Expanse) by Mark Rothko, owned (and later sold privately) by Bunny Mellon. 

Although Bunny Mellon had no formal training, she designed the landscape for many remarkable gardens. Mellon designed the White House Rose Garden for Jackie Kennedy. In France, she created the landscape plan for the gardens of fashion icon Hubert de Givenchy and assisted with the restoration of  Potager du roi, at Versailles. A close friend and confidant of Jackie Kennedy, before and after her White House days, Mellon also advised her on fine arts and antiques during the Kennedy White House Restoration. The Mellon’s private art collection was nothing short of spectacular. According to the Sotheby’s catalogue for the auction of their estate, they owned, among so many other valuable pieces, nine paintings by Rothko – one of the most expensive Rothko in a private sale,  ”No. 20 (Yellow Expanse)”.