Explore the most expensive Mark Rothko paintings ever sold at auctions and the interesting stories behind them.

Formerly owned by the Seagram company, the painting was expected to sell for as much as $100 million.

These days the artist Mark Rothko's fame rests primarily on his paintings of soft-edged rectangles of complementary and contrasting colors. In 1958, when these distinctive and evocative "color field" ...

In one of the most notorious episodes in the history of modern art, Nelson Rockefeller ordered the destruction of a mural he had commissioned from Diego Rivera. It was supposed to adorn Rockefeller ...

A luminous, red rectangular abstract by Mark Rothko sold for $85.8 million on Thursday, a solid kickoff to what’s poised to be ebullient spring auctions in New York. The seller of the 1957 work, ...

The Smithsonian show finds links between a 15th-century Ming dynasty dish and a 20th-century Rothko painting. Curator Jan Stuart says, "You almost... See Red In A New Light: Imperial China Meets Mark ...

It’s a Rothko moment in Paris. The week’s main curatorial event is, undoubtedly, the retrospective of 115 works by Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the first survey of the Abstract ...

In the 1950s, the center of the art world shifted from Pablo Picasso’s Paris to Mark Rothko’s New York. This week, Rothko is once again the focus of the city’s art scene, with seven paintings up for ...