Aiyhor: Mark Rothko Title: "Maroon on Blue" Size: 80 x 60 cm Copyright: 1998 Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2004. Private Collection. Courtesy Galerie Beyeler, Basel High quality offset print sheet. 240g. Original: Oil on cotton duck canvas. 1957-60. New to frame. Shipping in a rigid tube via certified express mail. It is possible to collect more than one object, from the same auction, in the same shipment. Rothko was an American abstract painter of Latvian Jewish descent. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. He believed that art was truly an expression of emotion and social circumstance and he had a deep distrust for money and material wealth. Although Rothko lived modestly for much of his life, the resale value of his paintings grew tremendously in the decades following his suicide in 1970.