The price of $72.84 m in 2007 for Mark Rothko’s 1950 work White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose).It was painted by an artist who died in 1970, Mark Rothko’s picture does not exactly qualify as ‘contemporary.’
However it have been received the seal of public approval over a long period of time. And White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) hold the world record for the most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold.
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essential and design of abstract painting. He was born in Latvia and migrated to United States at the age of ten with his parents.
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
