The painting in question, then, would have to be Mark Rothko's 1951 painting ... paid a collector for a work and what Rybolovlev would eventually pay. The Rothko sale became the first sign that ...

New York (AFP) - A Mark Rothko painting sold for $46.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York, an evening in which several records were set including one for a work by German artist Sigmar Polke.