But when it came to paintings he had bought only figurative work, like a pretty oil of a vase of flowers by Milton Avery.

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Mr. Black gleaned an early interest in art from his mother and his aunt, Grace Borgenicht Brandt, a Manhattan art dealer who represented painter Milton Avery.

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While they are hung separately in the exhibition, the catalog wonderfully juxtaposes Rothko's figurative "Untitled (Man and Two Women in a Pastoral Setting)" (c. 1940) and Milton Avery's "Girl With Cello" (1958) to reveal yet other affinities that Rothko shared with his fellow artists.

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