Is Rothko beat his previous record?
ARTinvestment.RU   13 мая 2008

According to the auction house Christie

According to the auction house Christie's, this evening at the auction will be put on canvas one of the most expensive artists of the world - and from Russia of Mark Rothko.

Christie's did not disclose the value written in 1952, the painting «№ 15», but said that is counting on a record price. It will not be easy: in May last year, the work of Rothko called «White Center (Yellow, pink and violet to pink)« was sold at auction house Sotheby's for 72.8 million dollars in unexpected.

«I am interested in only the image of basic human emotions - tragedy, elation, doomed», - explained abstraktsionist during his lifetime his paintings, created from several bands of different colors. His words leads Christie's, introducing the canvas as one of the most significant paintings auction postwar and contemporary art.

Sotheby's also put a cloth Rothko its bid (for a day later) and also considers it one of the most expensive lots. Work «orange, red, yellow», dated 1956, which, in the opinion of art critics, completes a six-year period «ultimate harmony» in the works of the artist. Preliminary estimate - about 30 million dollars. «The work of" orange, red, yellow suffused with refined sense of balance and the overwhelming aroma of color », - as indicated this thing Sotheby's, making it clear that it considers one of the most prominent color for this wizard. This is one of the largest of designs and size canvases Rothko (202 x 175 cm).

«write a small picture - this is how to put yourself outside your own experience. When you make a great picture - you are all in it ».

Source: www.rian.ru , www.christies.com , www.sothebys.com