Mark Rothko Archives | Woodshed Art Auctions

Prestige Signature Collection: Degas, Warhol, Van Gogh, Monet, Rothko

Our November 1st Prestige Signature Collection focuses on paintings, drawings and studies attributed to some of the most influential painters of the Impressionist, post-impressionist, Modern and Pop Art movements including  drawings and pastels signed Edgar Degas, Toulouse Lautrec, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall, and original paintings […]

The Transcendental Abstraction of Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko, 1903 - 1970

The name Mark Rothko has become synonymous with the term “color field painting” a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.  Often thought of as an Abstract Expressionist, Rothko arrived at his iconic style after a long artistic and spiritual journey.   Born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz in […]