TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen-Solal,Annie
TI  - Mark Rothko: toward the light in the chapel 
T2  - Jewish lives
SN  - 9780300185539
AV  - ND237 .M375 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Rothko, Mark,
KW  - Painters
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - First published in French as Mark Rothko by Actes Sud (Arles, France, 2013); 2; 2; b
N2  - "Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United States at age ten, already well educated in the Talmud and carrying with him bitter memories of the pogroms and persecutions visited upon the Jews of Latvia. Few artists have achieved success as quickly, and by the mid-twentieth century, Rothko's artwork was being displayed in major museums throughout the world. In May 2012 his painting Orange, Red, Yellow was auctioned for nearly 87 million, setting a new Christie's record. Author Annie Cohen-Solal gained access to archival materials no previous biographer had seen. As a result, her book is an extraordinarily detailed portrait of Rothko the man and the artist, an uncommonly successful painter who was never comfortable with the idea of his art as a commodity"--
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