ALL ART HAS BEEN CONTEMPORARY

Rothko Leads a Record Contemporary Art Sale In a surge of bidding unprecedented in art market history, Christie’s Tuesday evening sale of contemporary art took in $388.5 million, the highest amount ever in that field. A world auction record was set for a work of contemporary art when Mark Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow” painted in 1961 sold for just under $87 million http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/arts/10iht-melikian10.html?_r=1

Rothko Leads a Record Contemporary Art Sale

In a surge of bidding unprecedented in art market history, Christie’s Tuesday evening sale of contemporary art took in $388.5 million, the highest amount ever in that field.

A world auction record was set for a work of contemporary art when Mark Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow” painted in 1961 sold for just under $87 million

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/arts/10iht-melikian10.html?_r=1

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