Lot 45: Barnett Newman (1905-1970)

Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Untitled
wax crayon, oil crayon, pastel, and tempera on paper
16¾ x 14½ in. (42.5 x 36.8 cm.)
Executed in 1944-1945.

The Baltimore Museum of Modern Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Basel, Kunstmuseum, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969, April 1979-July 1981, pp. 50-51, no. 9 (illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Saint Louis Art Museum and New York, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, The Sublime is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman, March-November 1994, no. 6 (illustrated in color).
Philadelphia Museum of Art and London, Tate Modern, Barnett Newman, March 2002-January 2003.
New York, Craig F. Starr Associates, Barnett Newman Drawings 1944-1946, April-May 2008 (illustrated in color).

H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York, 1978, p.171, no.141 (illustrated).
S. Polcari, "Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk," Art Journal, vol. 53, no. 4, p.183, fig. 123 (illustrated).
R. Smith, "Newman's Early Steps on the Path to Maturity," The New York Times, 4 November 1994, p. C26.
M. McNickle, "The Mind and Art of Barnett Newman," Ph. D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 152-153, 156, 170.
R. Shiff, et. al., Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 2004, p.375, no.128 (illustrated in color).

The Estate of the Artist, New York
Annalee Newman, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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