Entertainment May 14, 2008, 10:23

Rothko tops New York art prices this year

Nearly four decades after his death, Latvian-born American artist Marc Rothko is now one of the world's most expensive painters. His 1952 piece, entitled ‘Number 15’, has just been sold at Christie’s Auction House for nearly $US 52 million, making it the most expensive work of art to be sold in New York this year.