7. Orange, Red, Yellow by Mark Rothko price tag of $86.9 Million
As one of the most expensive Mark Rothko paintings, the Orange, Red, Yellow was sold for $86.9 million.
On May 2012, Mark’s painting broke the previous record holder and became the most expensive auction piece in contemporary art.
The New York Times‘s Souren Melikian wrote that it could “convincingly be argued to be the most powerful of all his [Rothko’s] pictures.”
While the Wall Street Journal‘s Kelly Crow remarked that “the painting’s trio of orange and yellow rectangles bobbing atop a cherry-red background forms a palette that’s as eye-catching as a sunset or a Popsicle.”
