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Lot 6: Barnett Newman (1905-1970)

Est: $3,000,000 USD - $4,000,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 08, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Untitled
oil on canvas
36 x 24¼ in. (91.4 x 61.6 cm.)
Painted in 1945.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Gallery; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Paris, Galeries Nationales d'exposition du Grand Palais, Barnett Newman, October 1971-December 1972, pp. 48, 52 and 95, no. 1 (New York, illustrated in color); pp. 23, 30, 33 and 66, no. 1 (London, illustrated in color); pp. 10, 36, 40, 83 and 124, no. 1 (Paris, illsutrated in color).
London, Hawyard Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January-March 1978, p. 398, no. 15.38 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Abstract Expression: The Formative Years, June-December 1978, pp. 48, 96 and 139, no. 34 (illustrated in color).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, American Painting 1930-1980, November 1981-January 1982, no. 178 (illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Saint Louis Art Museum and New York, PaceWildenstein, The Sublime Is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman: Paintings and Drawings 1944-1949, March-November 1994, p. 20, no. 18 (illustrated in color).
Philadelphia Museum of Art and London, Tate Modern, Barnett Newman, March 2002-January 2003, p. 126, no. 11 (illustrated in color; Philadelphia Only).

Literature

J. McLean, "Of Limited Means," The Gaurdian, 28 June 1972, p. 12.
B.G. Paskus, "The Theory, Art and Critical Reception of Barnett Newman," Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974, pp. 74-75.
H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York, 1978, p. 44, no. 21 (illustrated in color).
B. Richardson, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969, exh. cat, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979, p. 46.
F. Meyer, "Zur Gültigkeit des Christusbildes in der ungegenständlichen Kunst: Die Kreuzwegstationen Barnett Newmans," Kirche und Kunst, no. 2, June 1982, p. 63.
H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York, 1994, p. 44, no. 21 (illustrated in color).
S. Egenhofer, The Sublime is Now: Zu den Schriften und Gesprächen Barnett Newmans, Koblenz, 1996, p. 54.
M. McNickle, "The Mind and Art of Barnett Newman," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 182-184.
A. Zweite, "Barnett Newman: Zim Zum II 1969/85," in KölnSkulptur I, exh. cat., Cologne, Skulpturenpark, 1997, p. 67.
R. Schor, "Abkürzung auf dem Weg zum Unerreichbaren: Barnett Newman und das 'schwierigste Werk des 20.Jahrhunderts' in London," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 19-20 October 2002, p. 49.
R. Schiff, C. Mancusi-Ungaro and J. Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 2004, pp. 148-149, no. 1 (illustrated in color).

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Annalee Newman, New York
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994

Notes

Property from the Collection of Evelyn D. Haas

Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Untitled
oil on canvas
36 x 24¼ in. (91.4 x 61.6 cm.)
Painted in 1945.

Auction Details

Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale

by
Christie's
May 08, 2012, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US