Pursuits
Rothko’s Family Brings Burning Red Paintings to Latvia
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Mark Rothko would be delighted, says his son: Six of the late artist’s abstracts have just gone on show in his remote Latvian birthplace.
Opening the display in Daugavpils, Christopher Rothko says his father would be less happy about auctions that value his works as being among the world’s most expensive (the record for a Rothko so far is $86.9 million).