In re the Estate of Rothko

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1977-11-22

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OPINION OF THE COURT Cooke, J. Mark Rothko, an abstract expressionist painter whose works through the years gained for him an international reputation of greatness, died testate on February 25, 1970. The principal asset of his estate consisted of 798 paintings of tremendous value, and the dispute underlying this appeal involves the conduct of his three executors in their disposition of these works of art. In…

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