MY ROTHKO

Two (2) things I love...

ok three (3)

1.  I love to watch Antique Road Show where the person has some random something they bought at a yard sale for $1 and it's valued at $75,000

2.  I love to look for those kinds of things on eBay and elsewhere

3.  I love to buy lottery tickets when the lottery is very high with the change I scrape out of my ashtray

ok...four (4)..four things I love

4.  I love to dream that someday...I will get very very lucky

This past summer my artist friend turned me on to

MARK ROTHKO

I bought some books about him and his work..and I must say I really like it

especially the yellows

So...this fall...when I was trapped cozied inside one cold day

I googled his name for some further study

when up came a link to an eBay sale going on at the moment

the description from the gallery said the painting was purchased in a 1930 California estate

and had the name "Rothko" but no first name..help on this would be appreciated

oh man!

so first things first...

I BID!!!

because I like nudes

it was a good price

she had a cello

and the back of it was painted also

then I started to do a little more research

this is his wife Edith (with the hat)..who he painted long ago

ok...maybe I'm dreaming but I see some real similarity!

this is his signature

the one on the left is my Rothko, the one on the right is from his website

there were many more signatures, this is the one I used for comparison

..he signed and painted over the years so differently

later he signed his work on the back of his paintings..this is how you knew which was the front

and just for the record...he only began painting his abstracts in the late 40s

and only became quite famous after he met his untimely death by his own hands, 

in his New York City apartment

of course I can't display my nude Rothko in my breakfast nook

but when I opened her up...I kind of felt this electricity in my veins...

I mean a real live feeling

I love her face

and her round full womanly beauty

and her cello

and the possibility...oh yes...the possibility

that before he got serious...he just had some oil paints laying around and his wife

popped out of the shower and he painted her...and cast his work aside because he had no idea

none

that he would someday sell his work (after death)

for millions of dollars

and that if someone were going to fake something

they wouldn't have faked in it 1930

they would have faked something like this

now

I have done some research

and found an authenticator and an expert in appraisal

each for about...

$200

PER HOUR!

Ok...I love five things (5)

5.  I love to realize that I already am very lucky...

...and if this painting happened to be some obscure early work of

Mark Rothko

found in some random estate sale

and I could sell it for $75 million dollars

and I could share that fortune with the ones I love and like???

well...right now...today...I would rather spend

$200 per hour

on an electrician, plumber, carpet layer, tile layer and landscaper

so it will hang way back in the depths of

822

and gain value

if only to me