Poster boys of entrepreneurial excess Mar 2, 2008
The cultured Coe reportedly has a painting by American expressionist Mark Rothko in his house and exercises his passion for art as chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art. These men shared the pages of BRW's Rich 200 edition last May: Coe on $380 million, King and fellow MFS founder Philip Adams on $370 million, and Groves and his wife Le Neve on $295 million. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Lessons of the fall Feb 29, 2008
The intensely cultured Coe reportedly has a painting by the American expressionist Mark Rothko in his house and exercises his passion for art as the chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art. These men shared the pages of BRW's Rich 200 edition last May: Coe on $380 million, King and his fellow MFS founder Philip Adams on $370 million, and Groves and his wife Le Neve on $295 million. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Jasper Johns: Color in shades of gray Feb 6, 2008
His Abstract Expressionist predecessor Mark Rothko impatiently dismissed Johns's targets and flags, saying, "We worked for years to get rid of all that." In decades since, critics have often been eager to puncture Johns's legend, deriding him as "self-mythologizing" or "undernourished and overthought.". 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Ruth Cobb, at 93; paintings evoked a dreamlike state Feb 3, 2008
There, David said in an e-mail, his parents were part of an art colony that included such names as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb and William Baziotes. In 1958, David said, his parents bought a Victorian house in Newton Center for $13,000. (Boston Globe)
As donations double, Boston Foundation awards $92m Jan 24, 2008
Among the gifts of art the foundation has received are a Mark Rothko painting and a col lection of ceramics created by Brother Thomas Bezanson valued at $15 million. The foundation's ability to process these unusual, illiquid, and often complicated "funky gifts," as Trueblood described them, "has been very much worth the trouble," he said. (Boston Globe)
Michael Goldberg, Abstract Expressionist painter Jan 9, 2008
It was the same studio he took over from Mark Rothko in the 1950s. Mr. Goldberg was a painter of strong convictions who in his youth was influenced by the gestural Abstract Expressionist mode of older painters such as Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, and Willem de Kooning, and never abandoned it. (Boston Globe)
Bill Gross, J.K. Rowling, Stanley Ho Were 2007 Sale Winners; Van Gogh Lost Dec 31, 2007
Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko paintings fetched more than $70 million apiece in May, and Jeff Koons in November deposed Hirst as the priciest living artist. Analysts are watching to see if prices continue to rise in 2008. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
While markets may roil, art endures Dec 30, 2007
While art from all eras is selling well, works by modern masters like Warhol and Mark Rothko and living artists like Richard Prince and Damien Hirst are especially hot. "The most money is chasing these modern and contemporary names, and that's just what's in fashion really," Peck said, adding that buyers with new money from Russia and China have a "limitless appetite for Western art and objects. Prices in some cases have doubled or tripled in the past year.". (Boston Globe)
Color as field Dec 29, 2007
He did not include Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman as Wilkin does in this exhibition organized by the American Federation of the Arts. The exhibition features more than 40 expansive canvases. (Durango Herald)
William Scharf Dec 27, 2007
Scharf, now 80, was a studio assistant to Mark Rothko. His vibrant abstract paintings nod to Rothko's tonal nuances, but Scharf is jazzy, bright, and as passionate about shape and composition as he is about tone. (Boston Globe)
* US art market is booming despite Wall Street turmoil Dec 27, 2007
Works by such modern artists as Warhol and Mark Rothko, and living artists including Richard Prince and Damien Hirst, are especially popular. In oil producing countries like the United Arab Emirates, the appetite is for modern American works by such artists as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Warhol, Peck said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
50m grant to make Tate Modern into 'world's best' Dec 6, 2007
These include works by Damien Hirst, Mark Rothko, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman and Olafur Eliasson. The donation, announced yesterday, is a reflection of the Bankside venue's remarkable success, both commercially and artistically, over the past seven years. (Independent)
Rufino Tamayo Nov 24, 2007
Among the Tamayos donations are works by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Fernando Botero to name a few. Prior to these bequests, Tamayo had founded the Rufino Tamayo Museum in his native Oaxaca. (Suite101.com)
Art Market Stays Strong at Auctions Nov 16, 2007
Overall sales set a record, and works by Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, and Francis Bacon fetched higher-than-expected prices ... The star of that $325 million sale was Mark Rothko's "Untitled (Red, Blue, Orange)," which sold for $34. (Wall Street Journal)
Warhol car crashes sales barrier Nov 14, 2007
84 million fetched by a Mark Rothko at Sotheby's on Tuesday night, which shattered the record for post-war art at auction. Prices have been pushed up by the expanding art market, with buyers from Asia, Russia and the Middle East mixing with traditional collectors. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Rainbow warrior Nov 13, 2007
In this way, her work recalls that of Mark Rothko, a reference that delights Dineen. While she is happy to be carrying forth all she has learned from Varma, she is not interested in using araash for the sake of history and tradition. (Guardian Unlimited)
Every Van Gogh Didn't Go Nov 9, 2007
Works by contemporary artists, including sculptors Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder and painters Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol, go on the block Wednesday. Koerber isn't optimistic about the results. (SmartMoney)
Sotheby's doubles price guarantees for New York art auction Oct 25, 2007
The guarantees include works by Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. A year ago, Sotheby's guaranteed 35 percent of the value of its contemporary art sale, Koerber said. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Sotheby's more than doubles its risk in auction next month Oct 24, 2007
Sotheby's guaranteed lots include Bacon's $35 million bullfight picture and his $15 million self-portrait; an untitled Mark Rothko painting valued at up to $18 million; and Jeff Koons's Hanging Heart, with a $20 million top estimate, says Koerber's report, which was released last week. Sotheby's contemporary evening sale may take in between $220 million and $284 million before commissions, she says. (Business Report, South Africa)
Review: Painter Diebenkorn found inspiration in New Mexico desert Oct 19, 2007
At CSFA he had contact with powerful older artistic personalities, including Clyfford Still (1904-1980), Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and David Park (1912-1960), with whom Diebenkorn would later define the manner known as Bay Area Figuration. In 1950, Diebenkorn still considered himself an abstract painter, but never denied that his art flowed from sources throughout his experience, not just from the experience of painting. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Francis Bacon a highlight of sale Oct 15, 2007
In addition to well-known artists like Bacon, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy and Damien Hirst, the sales are also offering works from other parts of the world, with a strong Italian and Chinese presence, including Zhang Xiaogang and Zeng Fanzhi. AFP. (iAfrica.com)
Yue Minjun Wins, Damien Hirst Loses at Sotheby's Art Auction in London Oct 13, 2007
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- China's Yue Minjun, Indian-born Raqib Shaw and the U.K.'s Banksy set records in the first 20 minutes of a London art auction last night, leaving Mark Rothko and Damien Hirst in the dust as buyers voted against some of the biggest names in Sotheby's sale. Yue's ``Execution,'' a 1995 oil painting of laughing men in underwear, set a record both for the artist and for a Chinese contemporary work, taking 2. (Bloomberg -- UK)
The Sunshine Boy Oct 13, 2007
The last time there was a major Turner show in the U.S., 41 years ago, he was treated as a forerunner not only of the Impressionists but also of the Abstract Expressionists and color-field painters, of Mark Rothko and his pulsing fogs or Morris Louis and his washes of diluted pigment. But in recent years, scholars have been at pains to draw Turner back into the context of his times, to emphasize that he was eager to paint history and contemporary events and to look to the past as much as the... (Time.com)
Artwork by disabled reaches wider audience Oct 10, 2007
Today's Globe Local Politics Opinion Magazine Education NECN Special reports Obituaries. - Daniel Miller scrawls words with a Sharpie pen: "Drill. Saw. Lumber. Pine. Carpenter. Router." Within minutes, he fills the page with a dense cloud of letters and lines. (Boston Globe)
Rome's exhibition center reopening after 5-year restoration Oct 5, 2007
Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni, or Palace of Exhibitions, reopens to the public on Saturday after a five-year restoration, with exhibits on artist Mark Rothko and director Stanley Kubrick. The monumental building on downtown Via Nazionale has been closed since 2002, and the 28 million (US$39. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Auctions show modern art is more expensive by half Oct 2, 2007
Sotheby s and Christie s are both putting record numbers of contemporary artworks up for sale in the next few weeks, including pieces by Damien Hirst, the graffiti artist Banksy, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko. Cristina Ruiz, the editor of The Art Newspaper, said that industry insiders were putting on a brave face because any talk of falling prices would quickly become a self-fulfilling prophecy in a market that is about confidence. (Times Online)
Chance to see painter of many contradictions Oct 1, 2007
Today's Globe Local Politics Opinion Magazine Education NECN Special reports Obituaries. A retrospective of J.M.W. Turner opens in Washington, D.C., today. (Boston Globe)
Art world braced for a crash Sep 30, 2007
5m to 2m and an untitled Mark Rothko known as Blue Divided by Blue is put at 2. 2m to 2. (Times Online)
In Brooklyn, Carib art show aims to be good neighbor and good art Sep 27, 2007
The exhibit features 63 works, from artists including Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. --"This Is War! Robert Capa at Work," "Gerda Taro," "Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture During the Spanish Civil War," and "Dark Is the Room Where We Sleep: A Project by Francesc Torres," International Center of Photography, Sept. 25 through Jan. 6: These four shows all deal with issues of conflict and war. (North County Times)
Fine Arts Find Sep 25, 2007
LAST MAY AN anonymous bidder paid $73 million for a Mark Rothko that looks a bit like a slab of Neapolitan ice cream. That's $3 million more than you'd have to pay for Rick's Cabaret (), a Houston-based chain of 13 strip clubs. (SmartMoney)
Tate pockets oval Billiard table Sep 23, 2007
Tate Modern is also planning the first major exhibition dedicated to US post-war painter Mark Rothko. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Rothko and Bacon lined up as Tate to attract 7.7m Sep 21, 2007
Highlights next year will include major retrospectives of Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon and a rare British showing of Lord Leighton's Flaming June which, while it is a greetings card and poster favourite by a quintessentially British artist, is in fact owned by the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, where, according to Deuchar, it is "guarded jealously" and regarded as virtually a national symbol ... The Mark Rothko exhibition, to take place in Tate Modern next September, will be the first major... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
New acquisitions made during Benezra's tenure - of works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Hans Haacke, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith - do not rock even the art public as do names such as Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Rene Magritte and Piet Mondrian, collection boosters from the late '90s. Among recent acquisitions, "the piece that I'm most pleased about is the Vija Celmins," Benezra said, a preference that accords with his quiet, bemused demeanor. (San Francisco Chronicle)
DNA moves from crime world to art world Sep 1, 2007
But Salamunovic who likened DNA art to the work of Latvian-born U.S. abstract impressionist painter Mark Rothko said this could never actually happen in real life. By the time the DNA is extracted and sent to us as a digital file it doesnt have any forensic value. (MSNBC -- Technology)
DNA science moves from crime world to art world Aug 31, 2007
But Salamunovic -- who likened DNA art to the work of Latvian-born U.S. abstract impressionist painter Mark Rothko -- said this could never actually happen in real life. "By the time the DNA is extracted and sent to us as a digital file it doesn't have any forensic value. It's a beautiful image, it's a unique signature, but there's no scientific data in it," he said. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Frosty, fabulous Melbourne Aug 23, 2007
There's Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as more recent art stars such as Gilbert and George, Rachel Whiteread and Cindy Sherman. Curated by the National Gallery of Victoria from the Guggenheim's venues in New York, Bilbao, Venice and Berlin, the exhibition starts at post-war abstraction and continues through abstract expressionism, conceptual art, pop art and contemporary art. (NEWS.com.au)
What CAN'T you buy with a 35m lottery win? Aug 22, 2007
3m (1990) Mark Rothko, White Center - 36. 6m (2007) source: Sotheby's. (BBC News -- UK)
Goldman Backer Broad Says Hedge-Fund Losses Will Cut Art Prices at Auction Aug 17, 2007
Mark Rothko and Warhol paintings sold for more than $70 million apiece in May, and a pill cabinet made by Hirst fetched 9. 7 million pounds in June. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Taoist bird with just sinuous line,two dots Jul 27, 2007
" If such an Oriental interpretation seems to be too vague, works by world-renowned masters Mark Rothko or Lucio Fontana may help. They also, coincidentally, go to the extreme of simplicity and even the void. Rothko's paintings are simply two or three blocks of colors, and Fontana's "painting" is simply a slashed canvas since he claimed there's nothing worth painting, so he slashed the canvas. Maybe the difference between the East and West is not that big, is it? (Source: Shanghai Daily) Editor:... (Xinhuanet, China)
$102M diamond skull fails to sell Jul 19, 2007
The skull represents a price increase for Hirst that exceeds even those of Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol, which trebled or quadrupled their auction records in May. Hirst's record of 9. (AZCentral -- News)
Hello, come in, do have a nibble ... Jul 4, 2007
"Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko have shown there in the past. But they're dead.". The exhibition includes photographs of LA cityscapes, including his famous Double Standard. (Guardian Unlimited)
Summer Sizzles Jun 29, 2007
"I go to see her quite frequently when she's not in Europe and we always have a wonderful time." Ms. Gali considers herself a colorist and admires a couple of her fellow Latvian and Russian artists who pushed the limits of color Mark Rothko and Wassily Kandinsky. "I also love the artists of the Renaissance, especially Botticelli," she says. (Bordentwo Register News, NJ)
Bacon, Freud Joined Top Artists in Sales That Made $883 Million Jun 26, 2007
4 billion in May, when Mark Rothko and Warhol works sold for more than $70 million each. Sotheby's sold 204. (Bloomberg)
$22.8m: artist's sweet pill to swallow Jun 24, 2007
Warhol and Mark Rothko, totalled 72. 5 million, beating the top estimate of 57. (The Age)
Hirst work becomes most expensive ever for living artist at auction Jun 23, 2007
In total, the Sotheby's sale, which included works by Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, was estimated to fetch up to 57 million pounds, but raised 72. 43 million pounds. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Hirst cabinet sets auction record Jun 22, 2007
In total, the Sotheby's sale, which also included works by Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, raised 72m, compared to an estimated total of 57m. Art experts estimate that this week's auctions could have generated almost 500m. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Bite-Size Art Jun 19, 2007
REVIEW / Actors, soundtrack clutter bite-size bits of art appreciation. " Schama bolsters his claim about "Wheatfield With Crows" with an argument about van Gogh having translated his thwarted, youthful-missionary religious fervor into paintings that portray the reverie of a mind awake to the miraculous quality of reality. Episode 2 shakes off the luridity of the van Gogh chapter. It views the career of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) through the prism of his largest and most famous work, "Guernica"... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
An E! true high-art story (Deborah K. Dietsch) Jun 16, 2007
Mark Rothko is chosen over the more significant Jackson Pollock, perhaps because Mr. Pollock was already well portrayed in Ed Harris' 2000 film. Mr. Schama, an art history professor at Columbia University, is entitled to his picks, but when he declares van Gogh's 1890 "Wheat Field With Crows" is "the painting that begins modern art," ignoring pioneering works made decades earlier, you start to wonder about his judgment. (Washington Times)
Read more... Jun 6, 2007
The Phillips Collection is home to one of the most exquisite collections of impressionist and modern American and European art in the world with works by artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Czanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Honor Daumier, Georgia OKeeffe, Arthur Dove, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Diebenkorn. Founded by Duncan Phillips and opened to the public in 1921, the museum is... (PNN Online)
The hidden cost of sky-high art prices Jun 3, 2007
On May 15 at Sotheby's in New York, a 1950 painting by Mark Rothko sold for $72. 8 million, the highest price ever paid for a work at a contemporary art auction. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Breakaway auction house packs 'em in May 19, 2007
There are also some amazing works by Kngwarreye's brother, Kudditji Kngwarreye, now in his late 70s, who has graduated from dot paintings to bright colour-field landscapes that almost recall the work of Mark Rothko, the abstract expressionist whose White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) just set a new record for a post-World War II painting, $US72. 8 million, at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Warhol Would Smile at Billionaire Queue for Art: Martin Gayford May 18, 2007
What should the rest of us should make of this -- or the news that a 1950 Mark Rothko abstract, ``White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose),'' sold for a shade more, $72. 8 million, at Sotheby's a day earlier. (Bloomberg)
Andy Warhol Painting Sells for $71 Million May 18, 2007
On Tuesday, the record price for postwar art was broken at a Sotheby's auction in New York, where a Mark Rothko painting fetched almost $73 million. The 1950 painting "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)," of blocks of color, sold for $72. (Fox News)
Painting by the Numbers May 18, 2007
8 million Christie's auction sale price for Andy Warhol's "Green Car Burning." That almost matched the modern-art record for a Mark Rothko work set at Sotheby's () on Tuesday. The same global liquidity tide buoying stock markets has dramatically inflated the prices of trophy art. (SmartMoney)
Warhol's `Crash' Leads Christie's $385 Million Postwar-Art Sale May 17, 2007
8 million postwar record set at Sotheby's on Tuesday by a Mark Rothko painting. Last night's sale was second only to Christie's $491. (Bloomberg)
Snapshots of Sotheby's sale of art May 17, 2007
UPDATED: 15:54, May 16, 2007. Sotheby's sale of Contemporary Art is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15, 2007, in New York. (People's Daily Online, China)
Warhol painting fetches 71.7 million dollars at New York sale May 17, 2007
The 1963 painting, "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)," narrowly missed the record for the most expensive post-war work to sell at auction -- a record set Tuesday when a painting by Mark Rothko sold for 72. 8 million dollars. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Rothko painting sets postwar record May 16, 2007
APMark Rothko's 1950 "White Center" oil on canvas ... NEW YORK - The record price for postwar art was broken twice at a Sothebys auction Tuesday, first with a Francis Bacon work and later with a Mark Rothko painting, which went for almost $73 million, the auction house said. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Rothko, Bacon Smash Records at Sotheby's `Crazy' $255 Million Art Auction May 16, 2007
Its reign lasted just 10 minutes, before being trumped by a Mark Rothko work that went for $72. 8 million. (Bloomberg -- US)
Weak Dollar Offers Little Comfort to Europe's Art Buyers at New York Sales May 14, 2007
David Rockefeller's Mark Rothko painting and Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter works are priced at twice the artists' auction records. Wealthy collectors such as Steven Cohen of the U.S., Britain's Saatchi and Israel's Sammy Ofer are unlikely to be swayed by currency shifts. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Star in stripes is yours for £20m May 13, 2007
This is the painting that signposted the way to the future for the great American modernist Mark Rothko. The painter's simple but subtle stripes of colour became a trademark in later years, but this work, White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), was the first of its kind, writes Vanessa Thorpe. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Cezanne's melon is sold for $25m May 10, 2007
Both auction houses are preparing for major sales of cotemporary and post-war art next week, with a major work by Francis Bacon, and a Mark Rothko canvas expected to command up to $30m (15m) each. SEE ALSO 18 Apr 07 | Entertainment 14 Feb 07 | Entertainment 25 Apr 07 | Entertainment 29 Mar 07 | Entertainment 15 Feb 06 | In Pictures. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Newly rich buyers from Russia and China lifting outlook at Sotheby's May 7, 2007
" Today in Marketplace by Bloomberg Prices for the top quarter of contemporary works stand more than 50 percent above the peak before a 1990 crash. And buyers from new markets are helping. In February, a man with a Russian or Eastern European accent paid 5.7 million, or $11.2 million, at Sotheby's for the Peter Doig "White Canoe" painting. It was a lucrative sale. The auction house bought half a dozen Doigs for $11 million, including the boat picture, from the collector Charles Saatchi in... (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Working titles May 5, 2007
These are titles that suggest beery-breathed English comics like Albert Modley and Frank Randle; at the same time, because of the way they're painted, they evoke Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and other abstract expressionist painters of the 1950s - another disappeared world. "There's always been this compunction to write on pictures," Miller (also a published novelist) has said. (Guardian Unlimited)
More of this story May 1, 2007
In turn, he influenced the work of others, including Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, who wrote in a letter to Cornell: I wish my work could touch others as yours does, a compliment he treasured, says Hartigan. For someone whose interests were vast - including ballet, music, literature and film - his existence was narrow, spent mostly in the family home caring for his crippled brother and aging mother. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
