Focus on No. 10 (Rothko) and explain the abstract.
No. 10 is a 1958 painting by the Jewish-American Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. It was painted in 1958.
In common with Rothko's other works from this period, No 10 consists of expanses of colour with dark shades.No. 10 was bought for $82 million by an anonymous buyer, at Christie's.
Christie's Mark Rothko Jewish-American Abstract expressionist