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Lot 24: Barnett Newman (1905-1970)

Est: $10,000,000 USD - $15,000,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 08, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Onement V
signed and dated 'Barnett Newman 1952' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
60 x 38 in. (152.4 x 96.5 cm.)
Painted in 1952.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Tokyo, Kimura Gallery, Six American Abstract Painters: Motherwell, Newman, Okada, Rothko, Tobey and Youngerman, April 1959.
New York, Musum of Modern Art, Barnett Newman, October 1971-January 1972, p. 80, no. 38.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Creation: Modern Art and Nature, August-October 1984, no. 2 (illustrated in color).
Cologne, Kölischer Kunstverein, Raum, Zeit, Stille, March-June 1985, p. 53 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, November 1986-March 1987.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Negotiating Rapture: The Power of Art to Transform Lives, June-October 1996, pp. 147 and 194, no. 63 (illustrated in color).
Philadelphia Museum of Art and London, Tate Modern, Barnett Newman, March 2002-January 2003, p. 160 and 202-203, pl. 54 (illustrated in color).
Philadelphia Museum of art (on extended loan).

Literature

T. Hess, "The Force of Barnett Newman," Intellectual Digest, June 1972, p. 45.
R. Rosenblum, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Freidrich to Rothko, London, 1975, pp. 210-211.
H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York, 1978, pp. 67 and 78, no. 79 (illustrated in color).
H. Rosenberg, "La Sculpture de Barnett Newman," Art Press, no. 35, March 1980, p. 12.
F. Meyer, "Zur Gültigkeit des Christusbildes in der ugegenständlichen Kunst: Die Kreuzwegstationen Barnett Newmans," Kirche und Kunst, no. 2, June 1982, p. 64.
J. Mundy, "The Beginning," in Creation: Modern Art and Nature, exh. cat., Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1984, p. 25 (illustrated in color).
P. Negri, "Signs of Being: A Study of the Religious Significance of the Art of Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko," Th.D. Thesis, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1990, p. 158.
R. Francis, "Barnett Newman," in Negotiating Rapture: The Power of Art to Transform Lives, exh. cat., Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996, pp. 140 and 147 (illustrated in color).
M. McNickle, "The Mink and Art of Barnett Newman," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1996, p. 237.
R. Rubinstein, "Versions of Rapture," Art in America, 84, no. 9, September 1996, pp. 70-72 (illustrated in color).
Y.A. Bois, "Here to There and Back," Artforum, March 2002, p. 105.
N. Denny, "Nothing to It," New Statesman, 7 October 2002, p. 41 (illustrated in color).
M. Godfrey, "At Onement: Jewish Approaches to the Art of Barnett Newman," The Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2002, p. 19 (illustrated).
R. Shiff, C. Mancusi-Ungaro and H. Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 2004, pp. 248-249, no. 58 (illustrated in color).

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Paine, Boston, 1962
Harold and Hester Diamond, New York
Annalee Newman, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988

Notes

Property from the Estate of David Pincus

Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Onement V
signed and dated 'Barnett Newman 1952' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
60 x 38 in. (152.4 x 96.5 cm.)
Painted in 1952.

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