Mark Rothko with No. 7, 1960 ... Rothko moved from figurative paintings to ­Surrealism-inspired images with mythological themes. By 1946, he had dropped the frames from his paintings, directing ...

This “neo-Surrealist” period where Rothko repeatedly splits ... happened to be directly across from Glimcher’s apartment. “Mark let me come to his studio quite often,” Glimcher recalled.

Mark Rothko, ‘Untitled,’ circa 1949 ... The works from this era, which are Surrealist in character, caught the attention of Peggy Guggenheim, who gave Rothko a solo exhibit at her gallery in 1945.

The exhibition “Mark Rothko. Paintings on Paper” at Oslo ... the show follows his experiments with Surrealist paintings in the 1940s, to the transition to his famous color field works ...

Included in “Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper” are 100 ... he began experimenting with Surrealism, referencing Greek pottery and Christian iconography. In these, you can see his later work ...

Where was it, then, that Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and the rest saw Surrealism in action? The surprising answer, writes the author and art critic Charles Darwent, is a small, grubby workshop ...

Mark Rothko’s work (1903 - 1970), it is sometimes ... predictability of modernist expressionism and the psychic chaos of surrealism. In Rothko’s days, surrealist practices were generally ...

The retrospective takes the viewer from surrealism to the abstract – ending with the colorless canvasses of his late work. Mark Rothko took his own life in 1970. Christopher Rothko commented ...