Artnet

Coveted Rothko From Robert Mnuchin’s Collection Nets $85.8 Million in New York

A major Mark Rothko painting from the collection of the late New York financier and dealer Robert Mnuchin hammered at $74 million at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday night. With fees, it totaled $85.8 ...
Wall Street Journal

A Banker Bought This Rothko for $6.7 Million. He Just Sold It for $85.8 Million

The seller of the 1957 work, “Brown and Blacks in Reds,” was the estate of former Goldman Sachs banker turned art dealer Robert Mnuchin, who paid $6.7 million for the work in 2003. The winning ...
The Boston Globe

Unearthly light: Abstraction Expressionism’s Gloucester connection

Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum has been closed for more than a year for a major renovation, but its reopening June 30 will be more than worth the wait. Its stately new building will welcome “Avery, ...
Artnet

$1.1 Billion Christie’s Auctions Shatter Records for Pollock, Brancusi, Rothko

Pollock and Brancusi became the newest entrants into an ultra-exclusive club of artists whose auction prices have surpassed $100 million. The top lot was Pollock’s Number 7A (1948), which sold for ...
Town & Country

Christie’s Sells $1.1 Billion in Art in a Single Night

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Christie’s made history on Monday night, shattering art sales records in a ...
The Guardian

Let’s dress like a Mark Rothko! How gen Z fell for the king of colour field paintings

Why is the artist’s work racking up hundreds of thousands of views on social media? For a generation bombarbed with visual stimuli, it seems his canvases offer a meditative escape The works of Mark ...
Winnipeg Free Press

Expressive power, emotional encounters: A closer look at Rothko’s Brown and Blacks in Reds

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The New York Times

Can Three Auction Houses Sell $2.6 Billion Worth of Art in One Week?

Five luxury artworks hold the key to the spring season, one of the most anticipated sales in years. Major buyers are looking past female and younger artists and toward tradition. By Tim F.
The Art Newspaper

Robert Mnuchin's $85.7m Rothko leads Sotheby's $407.5m auction in New York

Last night’s double-header evening at Sotheby’s, featuring the vaunted single owner Robert Mnuchin collection followed by a mixed vendor contemporary portion, raked in a solid and market reassuring ...
MutualArt.com

Mark Rothko’s 5 Most Expensive Works: A Journey Through Color and Value

Mark Rothko’s luminous fields of color have become some of the most coveted canvases in the art market. Rothko stands among the giants of Abstract Expressionism, a movement that redefined postwar art ...
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Mark Rothko abstract sells for $85.8 million

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, ...