Formerly owned by the Seagram company, the painting was expected to sell for as much as $100 million.
It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...
Mark Rothko, "Untitled (seated figure in interior)," c. 1938, watercolor on construction paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko ...