Mark Rothko wasn’t chasing beauty; he was chasing feeling. Born in Latvia in 1903 and raised in America, he turned away from figurative art to build vast fields of colour that could speak directly to emotion. His paintings weren’t about form or design; they were meditations; slow, quiet, and overwhelming in their simplicity. Yet that same simplicity has made him one of the most expensive artists in history. In 2012, one of his colour fields sold for nearly $87 million, a price that might have ho