"No. 1" fetches far more than expected at Sotheby's, helping to give the auction house its biggest night ever. By Joshua Stecker Rothko No. 1 Painting - P 2012 With help from Rothko, Pollock and ...

Earlier this week Mark Rothko‘s famous abstract painting “No.1 (Royal Red and Blue)” (1954) was sold at auction for that much, making it the second highest price ever for the sale of a ...

A Mark Rothko abstract painting sold for $ ... including sculptor Alexander Calder. Rothko's 1953 work, "No. 2 (Blue, Red and Green)," was the top lot of a sale that saw bidders purchase 81 ...

Rothko offered no interpretive framework and discouraged others from proffering their own ideas about the meaning behind his works. Mark Rothko, ‘Untitled,’ circa 1949, oil and watercolor on ...

By Lyna Bentahar You may recognize Mark Rothko’s paintings, even if you can’t recall the artist’s name: tall canvases of bold, floating blocks of color. Their titles, such as “No. 13 ...

"No. 1" fetches far more than expected at Sotheby's, helping to give the auction house its biggest night ever. By Joshua Stecker Rothko No. 1 Painting - P 2012 With help from Rothko, Pollock and ...

A highly coveted painting by Mark Rothko has sold for $75.1 million at auction in New York. “No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue),” which the artist created in 1954, didn’t break a record, but it did ...