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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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...