On “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950,” which opened at the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, on September 14, 2012 and remains on view through January 6, 2013. Mark Rothko’s so-called ...

Explore the most expensive Mark Rothko paintings ever sold at auctions and the interesting stories behind them.

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

This week, seven of the artist’s paintings are up for sale around the city, at Sotheby's, Christie's, and TEFAF—and one may ...

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous tells the story of the art world giant whose signature color fields defined the Abstract Expressionist movement and revolutionized the art world. Before you watch ...

It’s one of those little quotes that seem to follow the paintings of Mark Rothko wherever they go. Curators love to hang it on the wall like a skeleton key — promising entrance to the paintings beyond ...

John Bernard Myers, who contributed so much to our appreciation of contemporary art in the 1950s and 1960s, adds to our further understanding of those years in the “notes” and “memories” paragraphs of ...

Brown and Blacks in Reds (1957) sold for $85.8 million, briefly becoming the second-highest auction result ever achieved for ...

Mark Rothko, "Yellow Band" (1956), oil on canvas, 86 1/10 × 79 1/2 inches, Sheldon Museum of Art (all photos Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Mark Rothko’s work has come to epitomize mid-20th ...

Explore the life of the celebrated artist whose luminous color field paintings helped define the abstract expressionist movement, which shifted the art world epicenter from Paris to New York.

Mark Rothko with No. 7, 1960, photographed by artist Regina Bogat. Artwork © 1998, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ...

On a rainy New York evening in May of 2012, Mark Rothko's painting Orange, Red, Yellow went up for auction at Christie's. As bidding began, it became clear this was no ordinary auction. Barrett White, ...