The Legacy of Mark Rothko

New York: Da Capo Press [0-306-80725-4] 1996, Updated edition. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 403pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. "At the time of Mark Rothko's suicide in 1970, the deeply troubled, pioneering artist of Abstract Expressionism was at the height of fame and financial success; yet within months of his funeral, his three trusted friends, acting as executors, relinquished his entire legacy of 800 paintings to the powerful, international Marlborough Galleries (run by Frank Lloyd) for a fraction of their real worth on terms suspiciously unfavorable to the estate. The suit that Rothko's daughter brought against the executors and Marlborough rocked the art world with its shocking revelations of corruption in the international art trade". Book about Marlborough Galleries & Mark Rothko. Time Period 1970's. (Art History, Artists--United States, Biography, Crime, Law, Painters, Suicide).