How did Mark Rothko respond to Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio?

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Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background. — Henri Matisse French artist Henri Matisse, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913.

American artist Mark Rothko considered himself a successor to Henri Matisse and deeply admired his work. Rothko explicitly acknowledged his debt to Matisse after making frequent—and sometimes daily—pilgrimages to view The Red Studio when it was installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City starting in 1949.12