A painting by Mark Rothko has been damaged by a child during an “unguarded moment,” according to a Dutch museum. The abstract painting from 1960, “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8”, was “scratched” by a ...

A Mark Rothko painting thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars is undergoing restoration after a child accidentally damaged the artwork at a museum in the Netherlands. “Grey, Orange on Maroon, ...

A family visit to a Dutch art museum went south when an unsupervised child damaged a painting worth millions. While visiting the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, the child “scratched” the ...

An unidentified child in the Netherlands damaged a Mark Rothko after he reportedly “scratched it” at a Dutch museum. The Rothko painting was hanging in the museum’s depot as part of an exhibition ...

A large canvas by Mark Rothko has been removed from the walls of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, in Rotterdam, after a young visitor scratched the work during what the museum is calling an ...

His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.