Marcus Rothkovitch:He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label. He stopped putting his work in frames or giving them titles, other than dates and numbers.
Rothko suffered from depression, was a heavy drinker, feared younger artists and had two unsuccessful marriages. He also took Barbiturates (Drugs that act as central nervous system depressants)
He was hospitalized in 1968 for Aortic aneurysm and his doctor forbade him from painting canvases taller than three feet.
His last paintings were a series of stark black on grey canvases that evoke his painful state of mind leading up to his suicide (he slashed his veins in his studio).
He was a suicide, but an autopsy showed that his system had been poisoned by the antidepressants he was taking.
His last paintings were a series of stark black on grey canvases that evoke his painful state of mind leading up to his suicide (he slashed his veins in his studio).
He was a suicide, but an autopsy showed that his system had been poisoned by the antidepressants he was taking.