Bold and definite, the Blue Box Blues is as complementary as it is contrasting.  If you 'favour the simple expression of the complex thought',  as defined by Rothko and Gottlieb in 1942 , this modern abstract art work would make a noteworthy addition to your collection.  Blue Box Blues is evocative of Rothko's later signature 'multiforms' style of the fifties:  When he shifted away from the bright yellows and reds of the forties, toward a more sublime palette of dark blues and greens.

Blue Box Blues brings opposite yet complementary colours together in a harmonizing way.  Opposites attract?  For Rothko colour was an 'instrument': Towards the end of his life many critics compared the growing darkness of his colour palette to the growing darkness within his personal life. Devoid of landscape, figure, flora or fauna, the flat imprecise block forms of Blue Box Blues seeks to 'destroy illusion and reveal truth': Akin to Rothko’s groundbreaking oil paintings of the fifties.