Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. As Frieze London greeted well-heeled VIPs in Regent’s ...

In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern Painters, the painter Trevor Winkfield described Abstract Expressionism “as a monolith” that has been “accorded a reverential deference which . . . seems a mite ...

You might as well get one thing straight . . . I’m not an abstractionist. —Mark Rothko to Selden Rodman, 1957 It has long been one of the curiosities of abstract art that so many of its practitioners ...

On a rainy New York evening in May of 2012, Mark Rothko's painting Orange, Red, Yellow went up for auction at Christie's. As bidding began, it became clear this was no ordinary auction. Barrett White, ...

One of the most influential artists of the 20 th century, Mark Rothko’s signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism. After a screening of the new American Masters documentary, Rothko: ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

On a quiet, tree-lined block on the Upper East Side, a Gilded Age carriage house where famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko once lived and worked is back on the market. Its asking price is $9.5 ...

Christopher Rothko had heard about "the book" — an unfinished manuscript his father, the abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, was said to have written sometime between the mid-1930s and the early 1940s ...