Smith, still an architect, not a sculptor, came to class with a Rothko painting under his arm to show us what the new painting looked like.

Watching some critic tell me of all the things that are apparently represented in a Rothko painting, makes me want to kick the TV.

Houston turned down the gift and the de Menils then donated the sculpture and the Rothko paintings to start the Rothko Chapel.

In 1960, the Phillips was the only museum to devote a room to Rothko paintings.

One has a series of Rothko paintings and the other 13th-century Byzantine frescoes from Cyprus.

Before being stopped by a court ruling, Marlborough Gallery sold more than 100 Rothko paintings at deflated prices.

C&M's August sales included a major Warhol painting, a Rothko painting and a Cornell box.

If you spray a dot of blue, you will end up with that blue, but if you combine colors, it's a little bit like a Rothko painting.

Its $40 million estimate is nearly twice the previous auction record for a Rothko painting, $22.4 million paid at Christie's in 2005.

As he slips away, he sees almost abstract blocks of colour, as vivid and monumental as a Rothko painting.