They boast an arsenal of well-known names, from Monet and Matisse to Renoir and Rothko.
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Focus is on Warhol, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, as well as Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon.
When that show closes on Jan. 28, the Rothko will join the permanent-collection galleries.
Don't miss Mark Rothko's nine haunting "Seagram Murals", collected in one atmospherically lit room.
It is easy to imagine the sight of it driving Mark Rothko into an envious rage.
Actually, the great success was made by a couple of trophy pieces by Rothko and Warhol.
Unlikely as it may seem, these hangings are reminiscent of paintings by Mark Rothko.
In this case Dr. Straus had good reason to keep his name out of the Rothko sale.
In "No. 9" (1948) we watch Rothko grappling with the near-obliteration of traditional notions of pictorial space.
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Arabs such as the al-Thanis of Qatar pay record prices for the abstract expressionism of Mark Rothko.
The likes of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko are seen as unworthy successors to Matisse and Braque.
We're accustomed to understanding Rothko as part of the evolving style that came to be called Abstract Expressionism.
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In great work typified by Mondrian, Stella and Rothko, conceptual power is the be all and end all.
It came to full fruition later, in the singing expanses of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and other Abstract Expressionists.
It published a freestanding catalog devoted solely to the Rothko painting-a bold and unusual move for a single painting.
It's hard to conceive of Mark Rothko making a commercial, for instance, or being asked to appear in one.
The record-breaking Rothko from the Sotheby's sale had been owned by the prestigious collector Morton Neumann, which undoubtedly enhanced its value.
The Rothko fiasco tells you a lot about how the culture of art collecting is changing dramatically in the new century.
Art-historical references to such abstract painters as Franz Kline, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko pass through the stage pictures.
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Mr. Bacigalupi says that he'll use the Rothko purchase as an opportunity to rethink the display of the museum's postwar galleries.
Julia Nagle, a London-based independent paintings conservator, explained that repairing a painting such as Rothko's would be a lengthy process.
"I think it's the only exhibit Rothko himself installed, " Ms. Kosinski says.
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Rothko's No 1 (Royal Red and Blue), described by Sotheby's as "a seminal, large-scale masterpiece", was the subject of a heated bidding war.
They will also have to deal with the problem that Rothko's paint is more than 50 years old and has naturally aged and changed.
In 1960, six years before his death, Phillips added a permanent exhibit of four Mark Rothko oils to be housed in a dedicated room.
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Rothko (1903-70) was an artist with broad intellectual scope that included his immersion in the mythologies and traditions of the classical, Judaic and Christian worlds.
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The couple became art collectors in the 1950s, and over the next 50 years, developed relationships with leading artists of the time, including Johns and Rothko.
The Rothko painting was one of eight works hand-selected by the Russian-American artist for his landmark solo show in 1954 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Yet, over 45 years they've become influential megadealers of modern and impressionist works by a stable of well-known names, from Monet and Matisse to Renoir and Rothko.
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