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Property from an Important Private Asian Collection

Barnett Newman

Untitled

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 900,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Asian Collection

Barnett Newman

1905 - 1970


Untitled

watercolor on paper

21 ⅞ by 15¼ in.

55.6 by 38.7 cm.

Executed in 1945.

Estate of the artist (AN #11)
Annalee Newman, New York (acquired from the above)
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York (acquired from the above in 1990)
Sotheby's, New York, Masterworks from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Collection, 16 November 2017, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 24 November 2018, lot 129 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Kunsthalle Bremen, Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, 1976
The Baltimore Museum of Art; 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, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969, 1979 - 1981, no. 19, pp. 70-71, illustrated and illustrated in color (Baltimore); p. 19, illustrated in color (Amsterdam); p. 13, illustrated (Paris); p. 13, illustrated in color (Cologne); p. 13, illustrated in color (Basel)
Providence, Bell Gallery, Brown University; Worcester, Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross and Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York 1939-1946, 1985, no. 37, p. 78, illustrated
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; The 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, 1994, no. 17, pp. 20 and 49, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Barnett Newman, 1971, pp. 46-47, illustrated
Harold Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, New York 1978, no. 133, p. 167, illustrated in color
John Russell, "Newman's Mastery of the Pen and Crayon," The New York Times, 1979, p. D25 
David Elliott, "Newman's Sober Crusade in Esthetics," Chicago Sunday Times, 1979, n.p.
Exh. Cat., Brown University, Bell Gallery, Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York 1939-1946, 1985, p. 78, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Wildenstein, The Sublime Is Now: The Early Work of Barnett Newman, Paintings and Drawings 1944 - 1949, 1994 no. 17, p. 20, illustrated in color
W. Jackson Rushing, "Decade of Decision," Art Journal 54, 1995, p. 89
Richard Shiff, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London 2004, no. 137, p. 384, illustrated in color