Abstract canvas art that doesn’t cost £37million!

Last week someone bought a Rothko abstract canvas at Sotheby’s for £36.8million.

We just hope that the anonymous telephone bidder hasn’t since realised that they could have bought something really similar from This is Perfect for really quite a lot less –

Blimey, they would be kicking themselves!

Of course, Rothko – fabulous inspiration and we absolutely love his work - but if he was alive today we think he’d love the idea that his clients could change the colours of a canvas to suit their mood (well maybe or maybe not).

Anyway before you go straight to our “Abstract” section, have a play around with “Block”and decide you want to buy your own piece of colour-matched “American Expressionism” in any one of 10 million combinations of colour, shape and size, here’s a quick run down of the great man’s life and work to inspire you.

Born Marcus Rothkowitz in Latvia in 1903, Mark Rothko emigrated to America at the age of 10. After dropping out of Yale University, he moved to New York and made his name in art circles from the late Twenties.

In 1935, he was the founding member of the Ten, an artistic collective dedicated to abstract painting and Expressionism. In 1946 he began painting his trademark colour bands. Rothko, who married twice, battled with depression and once said: “The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them”. He killed himself in his New York studio in 1970.

So here’s a summary…

Rothko’s 1950 “White Centre” canvas      Cost £36.8 Million

This is Perfect “Block” canvas                 Cost £80.00 – £335.00

No contest!

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