Mark Rothko (Latvian: Markus Rotkovičs, Russian: Марк Ро́тко; born Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич; Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. He is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist, although he himself rejected this label and even resisted classification as an “abstract painter.” With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwar American artists.
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“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive viewer.”
—Mark Rothko
Marc Rothko is best known as one of the central figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art in the 1950s and ’60s.
In early November 2005 Rothko’s 1953 painting Homage to Matisse broke the record for any postwar painting at a public auction, selling for 22.5 million dollars.
1946 saw the creation of Rothko’s new “multiform” paintings. In viewing the catalogue raisonne, one finds a gradual metamorphosis from surrealistic, myth-influenced paintings of the early part of the decade to those highly abstract, Clyfford Still-influenced forms of pure color. The term “multiform” is applied by art critics; it was never utilized by Rothko himself, yet it is an accurate description of these paintings, which, as with his paintings of the latter part of the previous decade, are best viewed as a period of transition from that of surrealism to abstraction. Several of them, including No. 18 (1948) and Untitled (also 1948), are masterpieces in their own right. Rothko himself described these paintings as possessing a more organic structure, as self-contained units of human expression. For Rothko, these blurred blocks of various colors, devoid of landscape or human figure, let alone myth and symbol, possessed their own life force. They contained a “breath of life” he found lacking in most figurative painting of the era. This new form seemed filled with possibility, whereas his experimentation with mythological symbolism was, at best, a tired formula, much as he viewed his late 1930’s experiments in urban settings. The “multiforms” brought Rothko to a realization of his mature, signature style, the only style Rothko did not fully abandon, perhaps only because he died before he had the chance.
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“Only tragic and timeless subject matter is worthy of painting.”
—Mark Rothko
The National Gallery of Art is publishing a multivolume catalogue raisonné, Mark Rothko: The Works on Paper, which will document more than 2,700 objects that are largely unknown to both art specialists and the public. Demonstrating the range of Rothko’s creative achievements, these volumes will be the definitive historical record of Rothko’s oeuvre on paper for decades to come.
In May 2007, Rothko’s 1950 painting White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) broke this record again, selling at Sotheby’s in New York for 72.8 million dollars. The painting was sold by banker David Rockefeller, who attended the auction.
In May 2011, Christie’s auctions sold a previously unknown Rothko painting, accounting for the work as #836. The work was added to the existing Rothko catalog of 835 works after expert authentication. The newly discovered painting, Untitled, #17, created in 1961, came to light when a private collector put it up for sale, claiming he bought it directly from the artist. A seven-foot-tall oil on canvas in red and pink on an ochre background, the painting opened with a house bid of 13 million dollars and sold for 30 million dollars.
In May 2012, Rothko’s 1961 painting Orange, Red, Yellow (#693 in Anfam’s catalogue raisonné) was sold by Christie’s in New York for 86.9 million dollars, setting a new nominal-value record for a postwar painting at a public auction.
Mark Rothko’s ‘No. 10’ sold for usd 82.5 million May 2015 at Christies.
Dealers said Christie’s Rothko, “No. 10,” was prized in part because its blurry brown and black hues famously matched the somber mood of the artist at that time in his career. It sold to a telephone bidder.
Mark Rothko’s painting No 1 was sold by Sotheby’s New York during a contemporary art evening sale for 75,122,500 US dollar. The price far exceeded from the pre-sale estimated price of 35,000,000 – 50,000,000 US dollars.
‘Untitled (Yellow and Blue)’ by Mark Rothko sold May 2015 by Sothebyes for usd46.5million
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Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade: 1940-1950. Text by David Anfam, Harry Cooper, Ruth Fine and Christopher Rothko.The world’s leading expert is David Anfam, an art historian and award-winning editor at Phaidon Press who is responsible for the definitive Rothko catalogue raisonne.The definitive Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas ($216.97 at Amazon).
In the Mark Rothko catalogue raissone, the list of all known works by an artist, both lost and extant, 835 paintings are mentioned. Untitled 17 sold in auction at usd30million without buyers premium, an abstract 7-foot-long canvas comprised of rough pink and red squares on a gold ground, would be number 836.
List of art works -Oil Paintings Mark Rothko
1962 Harvard Sketch – 1969~70 Untitled Black on Gray – 256 UNTITLED 1947 – 257 UNTITLED 1947 – 292 UNTITLED 1947 – 295 UNTITLED 1947 – 342 UNTITLED 1947 – 357 Untitled 1947 – Beige, Yellow and Purple – Black on Gray – Black Pink Yellow Over Orange – Blue & Gray, 1962 – Blue and Gray 1962 – Blue and Grey – Blue Cloud – Blue Orange Red 1961 – Blue, Green and Brown – Blue,Yellow, Green on Red 1954 – Brown, Orange, Blue on Maroon – Darkbrown and grey – Earth and Green – Earth and Green, 1955 – Grey Orange Maroon – Light Earth and Blue 1954 – Light Over Grey – Light Red Over Black – Multiform, 1948 – No 1 Untitled Royal Red and Blue 1954 – No 1 White Red 1962 – No 10 – No 10 Untitled 1952 – No 10 Untitled 1958 – No 11 Untitled 1957 – No 12 1954 Yellow Orange, Red on Orange – No 13 White Red on Yellow – No 14 1960 – No 14 Red – No 14 White and Greens in Blue – No 14, No 10 Yellow Green – No 14~No 9 (Red Over Three Browns) – No 15 1958 – No 16 Green White Yellow Yellow – No 27 Light Band White Band – No 28 Untitled 1962 – No 40 Blue Penumbria – No 46 Red, Ochre Black on Red 1957 – No 7 Orange and Chocolate – No. 10, 1963 – No. 10, brown, black, sienna on dark wine, 1963 – No. 11 Untitled 1947 – No. 12, 1951 – No. 203, 1954 – No. 21 Untitled 1947 – No. 3, 1967 – No. 36 (Black Stripe) 1958 – No. 37, 1956 – No. 6 Violet Green and Red – No. 61 (Brown, Blue, Brown on Blue), 1953 – No. 7, 1960 – No. 81952 – No.1 1949 – No.10 Black Sienna On Dark Wine 1963 – No.12,1951 – No.13 1951 – No.14-10 (Yellow Greens) 1953 – No.16 1960 – No.16 1960 Orange Purple – No.2 – No.30 (Yellow Center) – No.2 1949 – No.2,7,20 1951 – No.207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray), 1961 – No.21 1949 – No.210~211 Orange – No.3~13 Magenta Black Green On Orange – No.31 Yellow Stripe – No.37 & No.19 (Slate Blue and Brown on Plum) – No.4~No.32 – No.5 Untitled 1949 – No.7 1951 – No.7 1960 – No.7 1963 Dark Brown Gray Orange – No.8 Yellows + Red – No.9 1956 Blue Pink – No.9,5,18 1952 – No10 1958 – No61 Brown, Blue, Brown on Blue – Number 10, 1950 – Number 14 1963 – Number 19 Untitled 1960 – Number 22, 1949 – Number 5 (Number 22) – Ochre + Orange – Orange and Yellow – Orange and Brown – Orange and Tan 1954 – Orange and Yellow 1956 – Orange, Red, Yellow 1956 – Orange,Brown – Orange,Red,and Red 1962 – Panel one (Harvard Mural Triptych) 1962 – Plum + Brown – Red Brown Black 1958 – Red Dark Green Green 1952 – Red, Orange 1968 – Red, Orange, Tan and Purple 1954 – Red, White And Brown, 1957 – Red, White, Brown – Red,yellow,red 1969 – Reds 1957 (Red Painting) – Rothko No.14 1951 – Rothko 2149 – Rothko-No.7 1951 – Saffron 1957 – Saffron,1957 – Seagram Mural (2) – Seagram Sketch 1958 Red on Maroon – Shades of Red 1961 – Slate Blue and Brown on Plum (No.37 No.19) – Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea 1944 – Subway, 1936-9 – Tan and Black on Red – The Omen 1943 – Unt.1963 Brown Orange Blue on Maroon – Untiled – Untitled – Untitled 1963 – Untitled (Orange over White) – Untitled (Subway) 1937 – Untitled 1960-61 – Untitled (Blue, Dark Blue, Yellow) – Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green, Red) – Untitled (Yellow, Blue on Orange) – Untitled (Yellow, Red and Blue), 1953 – Untitled ,1963 – Untitled 18, 1963 – Untitled 189 – Untitled 190 – Untitled 191 – Untitled 192 – Untitled 193 – Untitled 1948 – Untitled 1951-55 – Untitled 1954 – Untitled 1954 – Untitled 1958 Black White Red – Untitled 1958 Coffee and Cinnamon – Untitled 1959 – Untitled 1959 Red and Brown – Untitled 1960 672 – Untitled 1961 Red on Red – Untitled 1963 – Untitled 1963B – Untitled 1968 – Untitled 1968 (Red,Pink) – Untitled 1969 0869 – Untitled 2049 – Untitled 2450 – Untitled 36749 – Untitled 4168 – Untitled 582 Green over Blue – Untitled 7769 – Untitled 8269 – Untitled Blue – Untitled Blue Green and Brown 1952 – Untitled Blue Yellow Green On Red – Untitled Harvard 1962 – Untitled No 10 – Untitled no.16, c.1950 – Untitled Recto 1947 – Untitled 1956 – Untitled, (black ,orange , red white)1950 – Untitled, 1950 – Untitled, No. 11 – Untitled, 1949 – Untitled, 1949 – Untitled, 1962 (Red and Orange) – Untitled, 1969 – Untitled, (Orange on Yellow) 1956 – Untitled, 1954 – Untitled,1968 – Violet Bar 1957 – Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red 1949 – White and Greens in Blue, 1957 – White Center 1957 – White Centre (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) 1950 – White Cloud over Purple – White Cloud Over Purple, 1957 – White over Pink – White over Red – White over Red – Yellow and Blue – Yellow and Gold, 1956 – Yellow Band 1956 – Yellow Band, 1956 – Yellow over purple 1956 – Yellow,Red and Blue 1953
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