Mark Rothko took to new heights

Mark Rothko painting "Orange, red, yellow" was sold at Christie's auction for a record $ 86, 9 million. Now it is the most expensive work ever sold at auction of postwar and contemporary art, but standing among other equally high-profile records. The previous record-holder in this category was the "Triptych" by Francis Bacon in 1976, sold for $ 86, 3 million in 2008. The painting of the same Martka Rothko's "White Center (yellow, pink and purple to pink)" in 2007 went on auction at Sotheby's for $ 72, 8 million. The last victory Rothko happened immediately after the previous sensations May 2 at the auction works of Impressionist and Modern painting of Edward Munch's "The Scream" was sold for unbelievable $ 120 million. And before the world saw the news that the royal family of Qatar bought a painting by Cezanne "Card Players" for $ 250 million. According to the record price, the art market has successfully recovered after 2008, and its priorities, as well as in pre-crisis times - a win-win popular impressionist, expressionist and abstract artists.