His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

It became the first American art movement with international ... Others (Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko) were Color-Field Painters, using large planes of color to create atmospheric space ...

New York (AFP) - A Mark Rothko painting sold for $46.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York, an evening in which several records were set including one for a work by German artist Sigmar Polke.