Mark Rothko Painting on Cardboard, Horizontal Composition. Signed Mark Rothko. Approx Painting Size: 11 x 15 in. Support: Cardboard. This work is being offered as-is, as in manner of or as after the artist . Mark Rothko, Painter (1903 – 1970). Marc Rothko is best known as one of the central figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art in the 1950s and 60s. In the mid-20th century, he belonged to a circle of New York-based artists (also including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock) who became known as the Abstract Expressionists. His signature works, large-scale paintings of luminous colored rectangles, used simplified means to evoke emotional responses.Good Condition.