Listen, why it had to sell? Over the past 20 years has appeared at auction 134 works Rothko. Had been sold, of course, not all. Subtract the work, bought by museums and private foundations, which simply must have on his status. Find that in the year sold 2.3 work. And this is understandable: the museums that already have this collection in titanium, are unlikely to find money to buy one more (just can not explain the need for the purchase of the sponsors) who want to decorate their homes or a collection of such masterpieces seems to me a lot to be no way (not even talk about money), there are still corporate collections, but here buying one piece of goods is usually enough.
Generally speaking, perhaps, the real demand for the artist can tell by the number of its sales. For comparison, for the same past 20 years has sold more than 600 works of Monet, Vlaminck 3500 and 10000 Daly, not to mention the Chagall and Picasso.
Recent sales of contemporary art - not only Rothko, and Kline, and Murakami - remind me of trading in gold toilets, too, someone impress, to sell can be very expensive, but a little.
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