Mark Rothko's Orange, red and yellow painting has been sold for a record-breaking £53.8 million. It's the highest price ever paid for a piece of contemporary art at auction.

At different times, both Rothko and Hockney held the record for most expensive contemporary art piece sold; Rothko in 2012 for “Orange, Red, Yellow ” and Hockney in 2018 for “Portrait of an ...

Rothko’s color-block paintings have been highly sought after. His auction record was set by the 1961 Orange, Red , Yellow, which realized $86.9 million at Christie’s New York in May 2012.

In a new production of the play "Red" by Boston's SpeakEasy Stage Company, the life of the brilliant and tormented abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko is examined with remarkable intensity.

When Mark Rothko committed suicide in 1970, he left behind hundreds of unsold paintings. Partly, he didn't want to flood the market, but he also found it hard to part with them. Rothko considered ...

Red in Yellow: The Rothko Vandal Makes His Marx by Alexandra Chasin November 3, 2012 November 6, 2012. ... and how inscribing its name on Mark Rothko’s Black and Maroon relates to its aims.

The man who claims to have vandalized a Mark Rothko painting at the Tate Modern in London sees his work as a cultural statement, not vandalism, he told the BBC in an on-air interview Monday ...

The National Gallery of Art is showing more than 100 of Mark Rothko's paintings on paper, ... The woman was not pleased, asking instead for a bright red, yellow and orange painting, ...

“Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper” and the Phillips Collection’s Rothko Room more than compensate while many of D.C.’s Rothko masterworks are on loan to Paris.

In addition to Rothko’s No. 12, 1951 (shown above, top), his Untitled (Yellow, Pink, Yellow in Light Pink), 1955, (above), will be on exhibit at the Phillips Collection this fall.