1903–1970 · Abstract Expressionism. Wikipedia
Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art.
No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) is a painting by the Latvian-American expressionist artist Mark Rothko created in 1951. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, No. 6 consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades. In 2014, it became one of the most expensive paintings sold at auction.
No 1 (Royal Red and Blue) is a 1954 Color Field painting by the Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. In November 2012, the painting sold for US$75.1 million (£47.2m) at a Sotheby's auction.
Orange, Red, Yellow is a 1961 Color Field painting by Mark Rothko. On May 8, 2012, it was sold at Christie's from the estate of David Pincus for $86,882,500, a record nominal price for post-war contemporary art at public auction. The work was acquired by Marlborough Fine Art in London from the Marlborough-Gerson gallery in New York. Marlborough Fine Art sold the work to David Pincus in 1967. Pincus is regarded as one of the leading American collectors in the second half of the 20th century. The work has not been on the market in the 45 years since Pincus' acquisition.
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is an abstract painting by Mark Rothko completed in 1950. White Center is part of Rothko's distinctive multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas.
No. 61 (Rust and Blue) is a 1953 painting by the Russian-American Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. The work was first exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1961 but is now in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Similar to Rothko's other works from this period, No. 61 consists of large expanses of color with dark shades. Rust and Blue was a part of the Color Field movement. Rust and Blue also uses layered coloring. Rothko described this as "inner light". Rothko painted in such a way that at times paint can be seen flowing upward across the surface.
Black on Maroon is a mixed media painting by Mark Rothko, created in 1958. It is housed at the Tate Modern, in London. The painting comes from a series of three canvases painted by Rothko in 1958–59, produced in the Seagram murals commission for The Four Seasons Restaurant, in New York's Seagram Building on Park Avenue.
Black in Deep Red is a 1957 oil on canvas painting by Latvian American artist Mark Rothko, from 1957. It is now in a private collection after it was sold in 2000 for $3,306,000.
Four Darks in Red is a 1958 painting by American painter Mark Rothko. It is currently in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The painting is composed of four dark, rectangular forms set against a red field. This work, like Rothko's other paintings in the late 1950s, features a dark palette. Four Darks in Red precedes Rothko's Seagram murals, which share this work's red, maroon, and black hues.
The Seagram Murals are a series of large-scale paintings by abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. The murals, characterized by their dark and somber palette, represented Rothko’s commitment to expressing the basic human emotions of tragedy, ecstasy, and doom while also showing a shift to his darker state of mind. His paintings use horizontal, vertical, and square formats to alter the viewer’s sense of space with reference to windows, doors, and portals.
No. 6 (Yellow, White, Blue over Yellow on Gray) is a 1954 oil on canvas painting in a color field style by Latvian-born American artist Mark Rothko created in 1954. After his experiments with mythological themes and Surrealism to express tragedy he turned to depicting irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color. The painting depicts three blurred blocks of yellow, white and blue opposed against a gray ground. He made the various layers of the painting dry quickly, without mixing of colors, so that he could soon create new layers on top of the earlier ones. No. 6 (Yellow, White, Blue over Yellow on Gray) belongs to Rothko’s late period when he for seven years painted in oil only on large canvases with vertical formats. Very large-scale designs were used, in Rothko's words, to make the viewer feel "enveloped within" the painting.
No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange) is a 1949 oil on canvas painting of American artist Mark Rothko created in 1949. The painting is composed of symmetrical rectangular blocks of magenta, black and green colors on orange background. No.3/No.13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange) was also influenced by the loss of Rothko's mother, who died in October 1948. It is held at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Rothko belonged to the New York School, was also known as Abstract Expressionist, shaped by the Great Depression and World War II. No.3/No.13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange) is one of the early Mark Rothko's works produced within the color field movement. It is an early example of a compositional structure that Rothko explored for more than twenty years. Most of Rothko's color field paintings were created during periods of extreme happiness or sadness that fueled his innovative work and impacted the color schemes, becoming darker and darker over several decades.