Red is a two-handed play by American writer John Logan about the artist Mark Rothko. It was first produced by the Donmar Warehouse, London, on December 8, 2009, in a production directed by Michael Grandage. It then transferred to Broadway in March 2010 with the same two leads, Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne, where it won 6 Tony Awards.

Untitled (Red) was completed by Mark Rothko in 1969 and features his trademark style of lozenges of colour which fill most of the canvas, other than for narrow borders which keep them slightly separated. The complementary tones of red with white make this a more relaxed iteration of his Color Field work.

John Logan’s taut, visceral two-hander, Red, features artist Mark Rothko at the height of his career.

Rothko’s search for a new uncontaminated language for painting is the subject of the National Gallery of Victoria’s recently purchased Untitled (Red) 2) 1958, oil on canvas, 208.4 x 124.5 cm, purchased at auction from Sothbey’s, 20 May 1982. Provenance: Waddington Galleries; Alister McAlpine Collection; Beyeler; Sotheby’s.

Four Darks in Red exemplifies Mark Rothko’s darker palette of the late 1950s, when he increasingly used red, maroon, and saturated black paints. Four dark rectangular areas of different proportions dominate the composition, simultaneously emerging from and receding into a luminous red ground.

Award-winning stage and screen actor Alfred Molina reprises his critically acclaimed performance as the American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko in playwright John Logan ’s Tony...

MGC Presents Red: Directed by Michael Grandage, Nick Morris. With Alfred Molina, Alfred Enoch. Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, the artist Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work of art for an extraordinary setting.

Apr 28, 2022 · David Anfam, author of the artist’s catalogue raisonné delves into his most famous colour, red. The intense, bright pigments of Mark Rothko’s indelible colourfield paintings exude a complex range of moods simultaneously, from ecstasy to tragedy.

In “Untitled (Red),” Rothko presents a vertical composition dominated by variations of red and orange hues. The canvas is divided into three main segments. The upper portion showcases a broad expanse of rich red, subtly bordered by slightly varied red tones.

In Untitled (Red) the saturated fields of black and red, floating in rectangular shapes, are dominant entities. Through these two-dimensional, color-rich fields, Rothko translated universal spiritual states, alluding primarily to the tragedy of the human condition.