Posted on 11/11/2014 8:06:02 AM PST by C19fan
A pair of paintings by iconic abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko sold Monday for a whopping $76.5 million, the auction house Sotheby's said.
Rothko's "Untitled," a blue and purple oil painting from 1970 sold for $39.9 million. It was estimated to earn up to $20 million.
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cool coincidence ...my dad too.. was a professional.
the collection of cameras nest to his darkroom was a wonder to behold.
there are still a lot of people who use the large format film cameras even given the price of silver...there days.
I laid off making photographs for well over thirty years before diving back into it about a dozen years ago.
No...I don’t recall the Airshow. It is very probable that all happened the same week though. It just makes sense.
However, YEARS later, I got buzzed by two Blue Angels as I was driving on Rt 128 near Hanscom!
That was one of those days I DIDN’T have my camera!
I was cleaning out my Mom’s basement last year and i came across my old enlarger. It was a Vivitar and weighed a ton. I could still smell the developer in the room. You never forget that smell!
Isn’t FR WONDERFUL? :-)
“Why is there always ONE poster with arrested psycho-social development on every FR thread?”
My comment was alluding to the popular urine and feces artworks, which were lauded by many. Are you an artiste?
Its a Marvel Indeed!
for years I posted on some forums on a large network many many many forums...
it got fairly old being called a racess every other post when Obie got elected...
My handle “Left That Other Site” tells my story! I was hounded off GOPUSA (Supposedly a Conservative site) for dubbing Obama “The Lyin’ King”. that was back in 2009. I joined FR and never looked back.
I was posting of the D—— Forums...network.. where at one point Mr Ban Dr Laura was a Super Mod.....reeking havoc over ALL the political forums on that network..
I was once banned there for posting an early version of the JESSE JACKSON ace of spades Playing card
Ooooooo...naughty YOU! LOL!
I have had posts deleted here on FR, but i have never been abused by the mods.
I like that Art.
It's worth noting that Rothko committed suicide. I think his "art" reflects its general usefulness to mankind. It's hopeless.
Somebody made a killing.
A product of the untalented, sold by the unscupulous to the unknowing.
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