The likes of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko are seen as unworthy successors to Matisse and Braque.
Art-historical references to such abstract painters as Franz Kline, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko pass through the stage pictures.
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He had shown several times in New York, at the Betty Parsons Gallery, when it was home to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, and had corresponded at length with the august art historian Meyer Schapiro.
The only real evidence of the De Soles's worldly life is their art collection, which features works by Cy Twombly, Brice Marden and Mark Rothko, alongside modern Italian artists such as Giorgio Morandi, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Alighiero Boetti.
But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.
Focus is on Warhol, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, as well as Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon.
It came to full fruition later, in the singing expanses of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and other Abstract Expressionists.
Though studio visits in New York had made him an admirer of established painters such as Mark Rothko, Willem De Kooning and Barnett Newman, he was also quick to spot fresh talent.
This year, that work would be the star feature at Marlborough Fine Ar t: a dazzlingly beautiful, sun-drenched Mark Rothko canvas, seeped in burnt orange and the palest pink, and dated 1954.
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It appears that it will all come down to the quality of their major pieces, which this year include works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and the always entertaining Andy Warhol.
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In 1968, a year after he finished his legendary series of black murals for his eponymous chapel at the Menil Collection in Houston and just a few months after suffering an aneurysm that nearly killed him, Mark Rothko turned to painting smaller pictures in acrylic on paper laid down on canvas.
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