Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel

Mark Rothko

American · 1903–1970 · Painter, Draughtsman

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Record prices

  1. Mark Rothko, Untitled (Red, Blue, Orange), 1955, oil on canvasUntitled (Red, Blue, Orange)Phillips · $56,165,000≈ £33,521,337≈ €41,119,408Sign up to see
  2. Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1959, oil on paper mounted on MasoniteUntitledPhillips · $8,435,000≈ £6,787,094≈ €8,015,775Sign up to see
  3. Mark Rothko, Black Blue Painting, 1968, oil on paper, laid on linenBlack Blue PaintingPhillips · $4,215,000≈ £3,294,771≈ €3,728,439Sign up to see

Mark Rothko’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970)

Born 1903, DaugavpilsDied 1970, ManhattanOccupation Painter, DraughtsmanWikidata Q160149 ↗ULAN 500014869 ↗Museum works 1

abstract expressionism

Also known as Marcus Rothkowitz, Mark Rotko, Markus Iakovlevich Rotkovich, Q160149

Works in museum collections

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Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel
Rothko Chapel1971
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Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Artist record compiled from: auction results, Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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