A visitor walks through the Mark Rothko Center in Daugavpils, Latvia, a museum in the hometown of the artist whose painting "No. 10" sold for $81.92 million at an auction of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's on May 13, 2015
Employees of Sotheby's auction house with US artist Mark Rothko's "Untitled (Yellow and Blue)," which sold for $46.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
A Mark Rothko painting sold for $46.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York, an evening in which several records were set including one for a work by German artist Sigmar Polke.
The Rothko work "Untitled, (Yellow and Blue)," measuring 2.42 meters by 1.86 meters (about 8 feet by 6.1 feet) and completed in 1954, had been estimated at between $40 million and $60 million.
