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Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, Yorktown Heights, c. 1949. Brooklyn Museum, by Consuelo Kanaga.
Born
Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz
(1903-09-25)September 25, 1903
Dvinsk, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia)
Died
February 25, 1970(1970-02-25) (aged 66)
New York City, U.S.
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Yale University
Known for
Painting
Movement
Abstract expressionism, color field
Spouse(s)
Edith Sachar (1932–1943) Mary Alice "Mell" Beistle (1944–1970)
Children
Kate Rothko Prizel (b. Kathy Lynn Rothko, 1950)[1] and Christopher Rothko (b. 1963)[1]
Patron(s)
Peggy Guggenheim, John de Menil, Dominique de Menil
Mark Rothko (IPA: /ˈrɒθkoʊ/), Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art.
Originally emigrating to Portland, Oregon, from Dvinsk in the Russian Empire (now Latvia) with his family, Rothko later moved to New York City where his youthful period of artistic production dealt primarily with urban scenery. In response to World War II, Rothko's art entered a transitional phase during the 1940s, where he experimented with mythological themes and Surrealism to express tragedy. Toward the end of the decade, Rothko painted canvases with regions of pure color which he further abstracted into rectangular color forms, the idiom he would use for the rest of his life.
In his later career, Rothko executed several canvases for three different mural projects. The Seagram murals were to have decorated the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building, but Rothko eventually grew disgusted with the idea that his paintings would be decorative objects for wealthy diners and refunded the lucrative commission, donating the paintings to museums including the Tate Gallery. The Harvard Mural series was donated to a dining room in Harvard's Holyoke Center (now Smith Campus Center); their colors faded badly over time due to Rothko's use of the pigment lithol red together with regular sunlight exposure. The Harvard series has since been restored using a special lighting technique. Rothko contributed 14 canvases to a permanent installation at the Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas.
Although Rothko lived modestly for much of his life, the resale value of his paintings grew tremendously in the decades following his suicide in 1970. His painting No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) sold in 2014 for $186 million.[2]
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