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...longest, costliest, most bitterly fought lawsuits in art history came to an end last week. It had been almost six years since Mark Rothko, whose large canvases filled with luminous rectangles of color had established him as a leader of American abstract expressionism, slit his wrists in his Manhattan studio, leaving his estate to a charitable trust for needy older artists. Under New York State law, Rothko's two children (Kate, now 24, and Christopher, 12) claimed 50% of it. Since 1970, the children and their lawyers alleged, there had been a conspiracy between Rothko's executors-Accountant...
...voided all contracts between them and Marlborough, and assessed $9,252,000 in fines and damages against them, Marlborough Galleries and Frank Lloyd, 64, Marlborough's owner. The total included a fine of $3.3 million against Lloyd and Marlborough for contempt of court in selling a group of Rothkos in defiance of a court order. Arthur Richenthal, trial attorney for Reis and Stamos, called the verdict "overkill and legally erroneous ... at best a Pyrrhic Victory for the Rothko children...
...only weak summer show is the contemporary exhibit which consists of works by enticing names like Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, and Robert Motherwell. These paintings are shown in a sick yellow light made uneven by baby spots. This would be disastrous for any paintings but especially these--most rely heavily on color impact. The only painting which looks decent Is one of Clyfford Still's; he was after horrifying color for his craggy paintings anyway...
...Mark Rothko is a name in modern art that most people recognize--his prints sell in the Coop, the lawsuits over his estate get written up in the New York Times, some of his paintings are rotting away in a locked room at the top of Holyoke Center. Milton Avery isn't such a famous name, but this is what Rothko had to say about...
...their leader, could become a bore is (happily) not yet. Apart from the delectability of his work, it becomes increasingly clear that Monet, whose painting life began in the 1860s and spanned almost 70 years, was as fundamental to 20th century art as Cézanne. Bonnard, Pollock and Rothko, not to mention every color-field painter who came out of an art school, lie cradled in Monet's woven strands of pure color. Consequently the Art Institute of Chicago's Monet retrospective of more than 120 paintings, which opened last week, is an event of real importance...