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American | 1903 - 1970

Mark Rothko was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1903. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fondation Beyeler, Basel have featured Mark Rothko's work in the past.Mark Rothko's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 7 USD to 86,882,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 86,882,500 USD for Orange, Red, Yellow, sold at Christie's New York in 2012. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 5,120,333 USD, while his decorative art have sold for an average of 3,060 USD.Mark Rothko has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Daily Art Magazine in October 2025. The artist died in 1970.

Artist's alternative names: Mark Rothkowitz

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No. 31 (Yellow Stripe) ,1958

By Mark Rothko

Christie's New York

Untitled ,1967

By Mark Rothko

Sotheby's New York

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UNTITLED ,1970

By Mark Rothko

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NO. 21 (RED, BROWN, BLACK AND ORANGE) - Mark Rothko

NO. 21 (RED, BROWN, BLACK AND ORANGE) ,1953

By Mark Rothko

No. 10 ,1958

By Mark Rothko

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Untitled ,1967

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No. 31 (Yellow Stripe) ,1958

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Red Orange on Pink

By Mark Rothko

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Yellow Orange

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POSTER for the 1972 Exhibition

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Current Exhibitions

Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning

The Jewish Museum New York

Upper East Side | New York | USA

24 Oct, 2025 - 26 Oct, 2026

The Bradley Collection of Modern Art: A Bold Vision for Milwaukee

Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee | Wisconsin | USA

26 Sep, 2025 - 19 Jan, 2026

Four Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art

Boise Art Museum

Boise | Idaho | USA

19 Apr, 2025 - 11 Apr, 2027

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Articles

Inside the Jewish Museum鈥檚 $14.5m renovation in New York City

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鈥� ..These three paintings, all dating from 1962, will showcase the intensity of Rothko's exploration of color... 鈥�
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Saint Louis Art Museum

鈥� ..Rothko's later work showed an increasing interest in darker, more solemn tones, perhaps reflecting his intimations of his own mortality... 鈥�
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Saint Louis Art Museum

鈥� ..A comparable opportunity to see Rothko鈥檚 oeuvre in this concentration and quality will not arise in Europe for a long time to come... 鈥�
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Hamburger Kunsthalle

鈥� ..After his early interest in Surrealism, Rothko completely turned towards abstraction around 1946... 鈥�
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Hamburger Kunsthalle

鈥� ..In the later phase for which he is best known, Rothko most often arranged three horizontal, coloured rectangles with slightly blurring edges above one another... 鈥�
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Hamburger Kunsthalle

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