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...Francis, Mark Rothko...
...special feeling for the artists of his own time, early bought John Marin, financed U.S. Abstractionist Arthur Dove with a monthly check from the 1930s to the artist's death in 1946. In later years, Phillips' taste moved on to such U.S. moderns as Pollock, Motherwell and Rothko, bought each for his own merits. "There are no schools or movements worth a moment's attention," Phillips maintained. "There are only true artists and pretenders...
...oldtimers pay for tomorrow," he said. They did. Top price -$37,000-was for Willem de Kooning's 1955 Police Gazette; Barnett Newman's Tundra, consisting of a red horizontal stripe on an orange ground, went for $26,000. A 1951 Clyfford Still garnered $29,000. Mark Rothko's hovering red panel fetched $15,500. Two Franz Klines were bid up to $18000 and $19,000. What about pop? Only one work, Robert Rauschenberg's elaborate montage Express, was put on the block; it was knocked down for a record...
...here was an artist who had painted along with Pollock, Kline, Gottlieb and DeKooning, who had been among the most articulate defenders of the faith and who was now at last having his big moment. On hand for the occasion were such oldtimers as Mark Rothko and Philip Guston to give Motherwell, now 50, a bear hug for his success...
...social edge. It had tighter restrictions on who could buy property in the community, and it barred Jews and looked askance at Catholics. East Hampton, on the other hand, had originally been settled by artists, and now has been rediscovered by the abstract expressionists and realists, notably Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Moses Soyer, who were not interested in membership in the Maidstone Club or in its challenging 18-hole golf course. East Hampton has also been invaded by a sizable force of well-heeled industrialists, merchant princes and young executives, who want a pleasant place for their families...