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...most labyrinthine art trial in decades goes into summer recess this week. Since it began in mid-February in Manhattan, the "Rothko case" has involved seven different teams of lawyers, produced more than 8,000 pages of transcript and run up a probable $500,000 in costs-and the case for the defense has not yet begun. From the plaintiffs' side, at least, the cast is Dickensian: the suicide artist, the wronged daughter, a brace of crooked or bungling trustees and a villain-Machiavelli and Scrooge McDuck rolled up in one banker's suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rothko Tangle | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

After Abstract Expressionist Painter Mark Rothko opened his veins in his Manhattan studio four years ago, his estate of 798 paintings was divided between his two children and a foundation for struggling older artists. His dealer was Marlborough. Marlborough immediately signed a contract with the estate's executors (one of whom was Marlborough Treasurer-Secretary Bernard Reis) to buy 100 choice Rothkos outright for $1.8 million, payable without interest over twelve years-an effective average price of $13,000 apiece at a time when, the plaintiffs allege, Rothkos were going on the open market for between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rothko Tangle | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Moreover, the remaining 698 pictures were to be sold on consignment, and Marlborough was to get a 50% commission, a huge cut in view of Rothko's international fame. Since then, 70 of the consigned pictures have been sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rothko Tangle | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...surety of his stroke as he cut into the copper plate forms a line that is not a boundary for the human form, but a result of the swellings of the women's breasts, hips and thighs. Line never holds in his form, whether it is Mark Rothko's profile or a rolling hillside. Always, his line is an extension of the energy and force he finds in the world around...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Horizons | 4/24/1974 | See Source »

Died. Adolph Gottlieb, 70, one of the founders of the abstract expressionist school of painting along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning; after a long illness; in New York City. Rebelling against the social realism that dominated painting in the '40s, Gottlieb created "pictographs"-checkerboard patterns of squares filled with hieroglyphic-like imagery. In the late '50s he began a series of what he called "Bursts," huge canvases with floating blobs of color that sometimes resemble suns poised over jagged horizons. Gottlieb, whose works have sold for as much as $30,000, is represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 18, 1974 | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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