twelve paintings and one graphic work of American abstract expressionist Mark Mark Rothko will be shown in spring 2010 at an exhibition in the Moscow Center of Contemporary Culture "Garage". The exhibition will last three months. It is reported by the publication The Art Newspaper. So far, Russia has never had Rothko exhibition: to us they brought only a few works of this artist. The last show of works of Rothko Moscow hosted the exhibition "American Artists from Russia Empire" held this summer in the State Tretyakov Gallery .

Works Rothko, who will arrive in Moscow until July 2009 belonged to Ezra Merkin, a New York financier involved in the case of Bernard Madoff. Merkin collection was sold for $ 310 million through the gallery PaceWildenstein unknown buyer . Messages about the exhibition in Moscow, called rumors that the new owner of Rothko's works could be Roman Abramovich. However, Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, international coordinator of the "garage", categorically denies this.

Art of Mark Rothko (1903-1970) in recent years, only appreciated: in 2007, his painting" White Center "from the collection of David Rockefeller went under the hammer for an unprecedented 72.8 million dollars .

Opened in 2008, "Garage" became during this time in one of the major exhibition venues of Moscow: it houses the main exposition of The third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art , it was shown in exhibition of Antony Gormley and exhibits from the collection of Francois Pinault , this platform adopted draft «red car" and «Alternative History of Art" Ilya Kabakov .

Sources: lenta.ru , theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru