* Sotheby's holds the world record for most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold at auction, with Mark Rothko's quintessential 1950 White Center ( Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose ), which grossed $ 72. 8 million in May 2007 and was famously offered by David Rockefeller as well as the most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist with Damien Hirst's " Lullaby Spring " pill cabinet, which grossed roughly $ 19 million in a June 2007 London sale.

In the year after Rothko's death the value of his work more than doubled while early works were selling at auction for over $ 80, 000.

At that time he started to work on a series of projects in which he explored works with loose poetic themes, such as The Sublime, Monkey Island and Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, using a variety of different media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, video, and writing.

In the Tower: Mark Rothko, an exhibit featuring Rothko's 1964 black-on-black paintings from Rothko Chapel.

Meanwhile, Rothko's marriage had become increasingly troubled, and his poor health and impotence resulting from the aneurysm compounded his feeling of estrangement in the relationship.

" Pollock's energetic " action paintings ", with their " busy " feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning's figurative paintings and the rectangles of color in Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings ( which are not what would usually be called expressionist and which Rothko denied were abstract ).

A section of a painting from Rothko's estate ; the painting was among those wrongfully sold by the estate executors to Marlborough A. G. in 1970 very shortly after Rothko's death.

" Rothko's style was already evolving in the direction of his renowned later works, yet, despite this newfound exploration of color, Rothko turned his attention to another formal and stylistic innovation, inaugurating a period of surrealist paintings influenced by mythological fables and symbols.

Soon Rothko's paintings took on Averian subject matter and color, as in Bathers, or Beach Scene of 1933 / 34.

Kahn is an artist who embodies the synthesis of his modern abstract training with Hans Hofmann, with the palette of Matisse, Rothko's sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism.

Proceedings included removal of the estate's original executors, setting aside the contracts those executors made with the Marlborough gallery, eliminating the rights of the gallery with respect to its inter vivos contracts with the artist, restoring hundreds of paintings to the artist's estate, removal proceedings to compensate the estate for paintings not returnable to it to the extent of millions of dollars, election proceedings litigating the rights of election by the children against an excessive charitable distribution, contents proceedings construing Mark Rothko's will as to the meaning of the " contents " of the family residence willed to his widow and to her estate and later by the widow's will to Rothko's children, and valuation proceedings for valuing the art, assessed costs, fees, and taxes.

Those works remained in the hands of collectors, including Rothko's 1953 oil on canvas painting, Homage to Matisse, which later sold at public auction for US $ 22. 4 million.

A 1986 Massachusetts Institute of Technology presentation of Kelley's performance Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile ( 1985 ) included a live performance by Sonic Youth ; the band later featured his orange-knit creatures on the cover and booklet of their 1992 record Dirty.

One of Rothko's final paintings which relate closely to both Minimal art and Color Field painting

It marks a return to art history for him, treating eight artists through eight key works: Caravaggio's David with the Head of Goliath, Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa, Rembrandt's Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis, Jacques-Louis David's The Death Of Marat, J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship, Vincent van Gogh's Wheat Field with Crows, Picasso's Guernica, and Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals.

In an action known as the Rothko Case, it was determined that Marlborough had knowingly manipulated their management of Rothko's works to maintain a higher sale price after his death, to the detriment of Rothko's family's interest in his estate.

Following Rothko's death the three executors for the estate agreed to sell 100 works to Marlborough for a total of $ 1, 800, 000 while a further 698 works were consigned to the gallery for sale at a fixed commission of 50 %.

Among other wrongful acts, the gallery had been filtering payments for Rothko's works through accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein as part of an effort to ensure the paintings were undervalued during Rothko's lifetime — in the 1960s this led the artist to vastly underestimate the value of his works, directly resulting in his agreement to consignments of dozens of paintings to the gallery and collectors without appreciating his works ' full value.

The trial record revealed that the gallery had been stockpiling the undervalued works instead of selling them in order to ensure both a low market saturation and a high Marlborough inventory, anticipating a heightened value in the market after Rothko's death.

Further, the 100 paintings ' sold ' after Rothko's death by the estate executors through Marlborough were not sold to bona fide purchasers, but were instead retained by the gallery which shuffled the sale monies through its accounts in Europe, and which then quickly're-sold ' the works to actual purchasers for 5 to 6 times the value declared by the estate.

Rothko's vision of myth as a replenishing resource for an era of spiritual void had been set in motion decades before, by his reading of Carl Jung, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Thomas Mann, among others.

The architects frequently flew to New York to consult, and on one occasion brought with them a miniature of the building for Rothko's approval.

Rothko's will was admitted to probate the month following his death, naming his estate executors: Bernard Reis, who had drafted Rothko's will and who became a Marlborough Gallery New York director the month before Rothko died ; Theodoros Stamos, a friend and fellow artist represented by Marlborough New York starting in 1971 ; and Morton Levine, an anthropology professor, unconnected with Marlborough but who had been Rothko's son Christopher's guardian for a short time.

The Internal Revenue Service audited the Rothko Foundation and determined that Mark Rothko's former friend and ex-estate executor Bernard Reis was liable for various self-dealing excise taxes under section 4941 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 ( IRS code ) for the years 1970 through 1974 in the total amount of $ 18, 582, 500, and additions to tax under sections 6651 and 6684 for the same years in the respective total amounts of $ 518, 125 and $ 2, 112, 500.

Rothko's remains were first buried in East Marion Cemetery on the North Fork of Long Island, New York, in a plot belonging to Stamos, an artist who had been a friend of Rothko.

Beginning in 2006, Rothko's children, Dr. Kate Rothko Prizel, and her brother, Christopher Rothko, sought to disinter Rothko's remains and reinter them, together with his wife's remains, in Sharon Gardens in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

However, after Rothko died, his children were notified by the Marlborough's founder, Frances Kenneth Lloyd, that under the terms of the agreement made with the gallery in 1966 and renewed in 1969, the gallery owned all of Rothko's paintings.

Thirteen years after his death, Mark Rothko's tale aired as a television movie: The Rothko Conspiracy, a co-production of the BBC and Lionheart Television.

However by the late 1950s Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko's paintings became more in focus to the next generation.

Rothko's experiments in interpreting the unconscious symbolism of everyday forms had run their course.

Rothko's 1945 masterpiece, " Slow Swirl at Edge of Sea " illustrates his newfound propensity towards abstraction.

An example of Rothko's late period.

During the 1950 Europe trip, Rothko's wife became pregnant.

Seagram had intended to honor Rothko's emergence to prominence through his selection, and his breach of contract and public expression of outrage were unexpected.

Rothko's grave at East Marion Cemetery, East Marion, New York.

In April 2008, Justice Arthur G. Pitts of the New York State Supreme Court agreed to permit the transfer of Rothko's remains.

Fourteen of Rothko's paintings are displayed in the chapel.

As the genre matured, budgets sometimes increased, as evidenced in 1962's I sette gladiatori ( Gladiator Seven in 1964 US release ), a wide-screen epic with impressive sets and matte-painting work.

How carefully Bopp matured this work emerges from the series of monographs printed in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy ( 1824 – 1831 ), which preceded it.

Published in 1628 in the city of Frankfurt ( host to an annual book fair that Harvey knew would allow immediate dispersion of his work ), this 72 page book contains the matured account of the circulation of the blood.

Theatre historian Marvin Carlson agrees, noting that this play epitomizes the " complex tonality and deft dramatic technique " that remained throughout his work, though, he asserts, it was only as the playwright matured that his " dark view of the human condition its final expression.

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One of the most influential albums ever recorded, Sly & the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin ' On ( 1971 ) has been considered among the first and best examples of the matured version of funk music, after prototypical instances of the sound in the group's earlier work.

The marble David is Donatello's earliest known important commission, and it is a work closely tied to tradition, giving few signs of the innovative approach to representation that the artist would develop as he matured.

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Popular sovereignty in its modern sense-that is, including all the people and not just noblemen-is an idea that dates to the social contracts school ( mid-17th to mid-18th centuries ), represented by Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ), John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ), author of The Social Contract, a prominent political work that clearly highlighted the ideals of " general will " and further matured the idea of popular sovereignty.

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By the late 1960s, the movement represented by these filmmakers had matured, and some began to distance themselves from the countercultural, psychedelic connotations of the word, preferring terms like avant-garde or experimental to describe their work.

As the movement matured, the two major locations of Black Arts ' ideological leadership, particularly for literary work, were California's Bay Area because of the Journal of Black Poetry and the Black Scholar, and the Chicago-Detroit axis because of Negro Digest / Black World and Third World Press in Chicago, and Broadside Press and Naomi Long Madgett's Lotus Press in Detroit.

Her practice of construction has been honed and matured in the process of making a body of work to the point that in this piece, unlike so many of her pieces where the technique of construction so dominates the character of the work, whether it be a “ Running Man ”, a “ Horse or a “ Tribute Head ” she is at this point able to step back, work in her familiar way and yet let the character of the subject dominate the method.

However, he did not anticipate the more complex and matured system of unit proportions embodied in the extensive written work by scholar-official Li Jie ( 1065 – 1110 ), the Treatise on Architectural Methods ( 營造法式 ; Yingzao Fashi ) of 1103.

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