His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

2023 has been the year of Mark Rothko. He is currently the subject of a landmark exhibition in Paris, which includes an impressive 115 paintings that redefines the celebrated Abstract Expressionist’s ...

An unidentified child in the Netherlands damaged a Mark Rothko after he reportedly “scratched it” at a Dutch museum. The Rothko painting was hanging in the museum’s depot as part of an exhibition ...

A painting by Mark Rothko has been damaged by a child during an “unguarded moment,” according to a Dutch museum. The abstract painting from 1960, “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8”, was “scratched” by a ...

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...

“The progression of a painter’s work,” wrote Rothko, “as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, ...

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 ...