The Moscow Garage Center for Contemporary...
Mark Rothko (born Marcus Rothkowitz, a Russian-born American), even after his death in 1970, remains one of the most best-selling modern artists. In the 1940s, he shifted from surrealistic experiments to start a series of paintings where there is nothing but color. Many of these pieces were sold for unbelievably high prices.
In 2007, New York Sotheby"s broke the record of contemporary art auctions by selling Rothko"s 1950 painting White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) at $ 72.8 million.
The GCCC exhibition Into an Unknown World spans twenty years of the artist"s career, from 1949 to 1969, and includes No. 12 (Yellow, Orange, Red on Orange) as well as monumental studies for all three of Rothko"s famous mural projects: The Seagram Murals, The Holyoke Center at Harvard University and the Rothko Chapel at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. One of Rothko"s last grey and black paintings from 1969 is also on view.