Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...
The early work of Rothko and other seminal abstract expressionists will be on view at Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum.
Sotheby’s has unveiled what will likely be a blockbuster lot in its marquee spring auctions this May—and potentially a controversial one, too. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is selling a color ...
Imagine this: A canvas with nothing but two colossal, blocky rectangles of yellow and blue. Nothing else. Just color. Now, ...
Why is the artist’s work racking up hundreds of thousands of views on social media? For a generation bombarbed with visual stimuli, it seems his canvases offer a meditative escape ...
Mark Rothko, "Untitled (seated figure in interior)," c. 1938, watercolor on construction paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko ...
The arts leader and patron Agnes Gund left a void after her death. Some of her most cherished works, including a rarely seen ...
Mark Rothko, “Self-Portrait” (1936), © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Bildrecht Wien, 2019 (all images via khm.at) VIENNA — Mark Rothko is ...
It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...