Sotheby's sold a Mark Rothko abstract for $75 million on Tuesday in a contemporary-art auction whose total—$375 million—surpassed any in its company history. Fittingly, the Rothko painting is ...

In addition to Rothko’s No. 12, 1951 (shown above, top), his Untitled (Yellow, Pink, Yellow in Light Pink), 1955, (above), will be on exhibit at the Phillips Collection this fall.

When Mark Rothko committed suicide in 1970, he left behind hundreds of unsold paintings. ... White Center, a painting of shimmery white and yellow bands on a luscious pink field.

Everyone knew that David Rockefeller’s Rothko would fetch a very high price. Sotheby’s, our eBay for billionaires, ... (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) in 1950.

Mark Rothko’s Abstract Art Has Fallen Out of Fashion. ... Stopping next to a sensual, pink-and-red abstract painting, the man turned to his girlfriend, reached into his pocket, ...

View Marc Rothko (after) - Red and Pink on Pink, c.1953 (Circa 1953) After Rothko Mark; Red and Pink on Pink; Paper size : 81 × 56 cm Image size : 69 × 44 cm. 81 × 56 cm Image : 69 × 44 cm; Signed; .

The NY Times reports that David Rockefeller is selling a 7-foot Rothko painting that he bought in 1960 for $10,000. Sotheby's will auction "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender)" and has ...

New York – The record price for postwar art was broken twice at a Sotheby’s auction Tuesday, first with a Francis Bacon work and later with a Mark Rothko painting, which went for almost $73 ...

(Rothko was actually born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, in 1903.) Sotheby’s had given a hard sell on the painting to buyers who bid on behalf of an art-collecting suite of Russian vodka ...

‘Untitled,’ c. 1944, watercolor, ink, and graphite on watercolor paper sheet: 38.1 x 53.3 cm (15 x 21 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc ...