Rothko's children on growing up orphaned but in possession of an astonishing artistic legacy
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telegraph.co.ukHomage to Matisse (1954), is everything the world has come to expect of a Rothko: rectangles of colour - here, blue, gold and orange - in chiffony layers that emit a visual vibration.
The painting fetched $22.4 million when it was sold by a collector in 2005, though other works by the Russian-American artist have sold since for nearly quadruple the sum.Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea (1944) is rather different: a wild, surrealist configuration of two dancing forms that resides today in New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Subtitled 'Mell-Ecstatic', Rothko made it in the heady days of his courting of Mary Alice - or Mell - Beistle (they married in 1945), and the family were enormously fond of it. "I would look at it all the time," Christopher.
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