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BARNETT NEWMAN (1905-1970)

Lot 30
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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$ 500 000
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ID 1425819
Lot 30 | BARNETT NEWMAN (1905-1970)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
BARNETT NEWMAN (1905-1970)
Untitled
watercolor on paper
15 1/8 x 20 ¾ in. (38.4 x 52.7 cm.)
Painted in 1945.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
Annalee Newman, New York, by descent from the above
The Pace Gallery, New York, 1991
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994



Literature

H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York, 1978, p. 166, no. 132 (illustrated).
J. Russell, “Newman’s Mastery of The Pen and Crayon,” New York Times, 27 May 1979, p. D25.
H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York, 1994, p. 166, no. 132 (illustrated).
M. McNickle, “The Mind and Art of Barnett Newman,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 166-180.
R. Shiff, C. Mancusi-Ungaro and H. Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 385, no. 138 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Baltimore Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Kunstmuseum Basel, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969, April 1979-April 1980, no. 20 (New York, pp. 72-73, illustrated; Amsterdam, n.p.; Paris, p. 32; Cologne, p. 42; Basel, p. 42).
Katonah Museum of Art, Watercolors from the Abstract Expressionist Era, April-June 1990, n.p., fig. 11 (illustrated).
New York, The Pace Gallery, Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, December 1991-January 1992.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Saint Louis Art Museum and New York, The Pace Gallery, The Sublime is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman, Paintings and Drawings 1944-1949, March-November 1994, n.p., no. 16 (illustrated; detail illustrated on the front and back covers).
Philadelphia Museum of Art and London, Tate Modern, Barnett Newman, March 2002-January 2003, pp. 124-125, no. 10 (illustrated).
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