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creates some kind of a helpless feeling while looking at its impenetrable color density. It is hard to deal with inexplicable agitation standing next to the canvases. They block the rest of the space. It seems nothing exists on Earth except the color filling these square "Universes."Earlier media said the entire collection is estimated at $310 million. The previous owner was a former U.S. money manager and financier, Ezra Merkin, who was a close business associate of Bernard Madoff and allegedly played a significant part in the Madoff fraud. After Madoff was sentenced to his 150-year imprisonment, Merkin in June, 2009, sold the paintings off to an unknown art collector.
The name of the current owner of Rothko"s canvases is secret, but Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich was named the possible owner of the collection. However GCCC international projects coordinator, Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, denied the information.