The chapel suffered damage to the building and to several of its famous paintings ... site-specific paintings by the Russian-born Mark Rothko, one of the United States’ most prolific mid-20th ...

Representing an important shift in the Latvian-born artist’s work towards fewer and darker colours, the painting captures Rothko’s famous style ... of the gallery’s most valuable pieces.

Mark Rothko was, in the opinion of many art critics, one of the foremost American artists of the late twentieth century. In fact, except for Jackson Pollock, he is considered by some to be the ...

The painting was once owned by American socialite Rachel "Bunny' Mellon, according to Bloomberg. Rothko was one of the most successful and famous artists in America before he commited suicide in ...