Lot 57: Barnett Newman (1905-1970)

Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Untitled
ink on paper
23¾ x 17 5/8 in. (60.3 x 44.8 cm.)
Executed in 1945.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, The Tate Gallery and Paris, Grand Palais, Barnett Newman, October 1971-December 1972.
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. 90-91, no. 29 (illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Arts Center, Saint Louis Art Museum and New York, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, The Sublime is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman, March-November 1994, pp. II, 16-17, 18, no. 27 (illustrated in color).
New York, Craig F. Starr Associates, Barnett Newman: Drawing Declares the Space, April-June 2005 (illustrated in color).

T.B. Hess, ed., Barnett Newman, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 131, no. 65 (illustrated).
H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York, 1994, p. 179, no. 158 (illustrated).
S. Polcari, "Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk," Art Journal, vol. 53, no. 4, Winter 1994, pp. 194-195 (illustrated).
J. Strick, The Sublime is Now: The Early Works of Barnett Newman, exh. cat., Pace Wildenstein, New York, 1994, pp. II, 16-17, 18, no. 27 (illustrated).
M. McNickle, "The Mind and Art of Barnett Newman," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 159-161, 166.
R. Shiff, et. al., Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 2004, p. 394, no. 147 (illustrated in color).

Estate of the Artist, New York
Annalee Newman, New York
Private collection, New York
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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