Editing Mark Rothko (section)

==Resale market==
Prices for Rothko's work on the secondary market and at auction rose significantly toward the end of his career and after his death, and have consistently remained among [[List of most expensive paintings|the highest]] for works of art by a modern or contemporary artist.<ref name="ArtNews Rothko market records">{{cite news |last1=Villa |first1=Angelica |title=The Most Expensive Works by Mark Rothko Sold at Auction |url=https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/most-expensive-works-by-mark-rothko-auction-records-1234604959/untitled-1952/ |access-date=2 March 2024 |work=[[ARTnews]] |date=29 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606030512/https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/most-expensive-works-by-mark-rothko-auction-records-1234604959/untitled-1952/ |archive-date=6 June 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> Three years prior to his death, a work by Rothko sold on the secondary market for $22,000;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=May 8, 2012 |title=Record Sales for A Rothko And Other Art at Christie's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/arts/design/rothko-painting-sells-for-record-nearly-87-million-at-christies.html |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> in 2003 a painting by Rothko sold for $7,175,000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horsley |first=Carter B. |title=Art/Auctions: Contemporary Art evening auction at Christie's November 11, 2003 |url=http://www.thecityreview.com/f03ccon1.html |access-date=August 18, 2017 |website=thecityreview.com}}</ref> Rothko's paintings sold at successively higher prices at auction through the mid-2010s,<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 31, 2008 |first=Randall |last=Radic |title=An Outsider in Latvia, America & Art: Mark Rothko |website=Literary Traveler |url=https://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/markrothko_latvia/ |access-date=June 4, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 16, 2007 |title=Huge bids smash modern art record |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6660487.stm}}</ref><ref name="outofnowhere">{{Cite web |last=Crow |first=Kelly |title=Out of Nowhere, a Rothko |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518704576259212623372324.html |date=April 13, 2011 |access-date=June 4, 2023 |website=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> reaching $86.8&nbsp;million in 2012, a record for Rothko and, at the time, a new [[nominal value]] record for any postwar painting sold at a public auction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale 8 May 2012 – Sale 2557, Lot 20 |url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/mark-rothko-orange-red-yellow-5559196-details.aspx |access-date=May 9, 2012 |publisher=[[Christie's]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=May 8, 2012 |title=Record Sales for a Rothko and Other Art at Christie's |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/nyregion/rothko-painting-sells-for-record-nearly-87-million-at-christies.html |access-date=May 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Whitman |first=Hilary |date=May 9, 2012 |title=Art records fall led by Rothko in New York |work=[[CNN News]] |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/09/world/asia/rothko-christies-art-record/ |access-date=May 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Waters |first=Florence |date=May 9, 2012 |title=Why Mark Rothko is still setting records |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9254687/Why-Mark-Rothko-is-still-setting-records.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=May 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9254687/Why-Mark-Rothko-is-still-setting-records.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Works by Rothko have continued to regularly achieve prices at auction ranging as high as $80&nbsp;million through the 2020s.<ref name="JayZ">{{Cite news |last=Dionne |first=Zach |date=November 13, 2012 |title=A Rothko From 1954 Just Sold for an Ungodly Sum |work=vulture.com |publisher=New York Media LLC |url=https://www.vulture.com/2012/11/rothko-1954-sold-ungodly-sum.html |access-date=October 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kazakina |first=Katya |date=May 15, 2014 |title=Paul Allen's Rothko Sells for $56.2 Million at Phillips |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-15/rothko-painting-fetches-56-2-million-at-phillips-auction |publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tarmy |first=James |date=November 11, 2014 |title=Sotheby's $343 Million Sale Led by Jasper Johns's ''Flag'' |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-12/sotheby-s-343-million-sale-leg-by-jasper-johns-s-flag- |publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kazakina |first=Katya |date=May 14, 2015 |title=Mellon's Rothko Painting Sells for $46.5 Million at Sotheby's |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-12/mellon-s-rothko-painting-sells-for-46-5-million-at-sotheby-s |publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.]]}}</ref><ref name="no10">{{Cite news |last=Ng |first=David |date=May 14, 2015 |title=Rothko painting fetches $82&nbsp;million at Christie's auction |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-rothko-painting-christies-auction-20150514-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=May 10, 2016 |title=Basquiat sets artist record at Christie's sale at $57.3M |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ffc40458474d4b6b8f9efdac1d3b3270/rothko-basquiat-highlight-christies-contemporary-sale |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rust, Blacks on Plum sale details, Christie's |url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/mark-rothko-1903-1970-untitled-rust-blacks-on-6171876-details.aspx}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Macklowe Collection no. 7 |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/the-macklowe-collection/no-7}}</ref> His painting ''[[No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)]]'' sold in 2014 for $186 million.<ref name=":0" />