Lot 21
  • 21

Barnett Newman

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
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Description

  • Barnett Newman
  • Untitled (Euclidian Abyss I)
  • crayon on paper
  • 10 1/4 by 7 7/8 in. 26 by 20 cm.
  • Executed in 1946.

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Collection of Annalee Newman
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1990

Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary 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 Basel, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969, April 1979 - July 1981, pp. 132-133, no. 48, illustrated in color (Baltimore); n.p., no. 46, illustrated in color (Amsterdam); p. 16, no. 48, illustrated in color (Paris); p. 25, no. 47, illustrated in color (Cologne); n.p., no. 47, illustrated in color (Basel) 

Literature

Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and travelling), The Sublime is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman, Paintings and Drawings 1944-1949, 1994, p. 23, no. 11, illustrated
Mollie McNickle, "The Mind and Art of Barnett Newman (Ph.D. dissertation)," University of Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 196-197 
Nancy Jachec, The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism 1940-1960, Cambridge, 2000, p. 91 (text) and p. 95, no. 9, illustrated in color
Richard Shiff, Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro and Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 412, no. 165, illustrated in color