Barnett Newman Onement Vi. Join mutualart to unlock sale information. It has been guaranteed and is expected to sell for much more than the estimated $30 to $40 million!
“in onement vi the luminous ‘zip’ communes with the deep blueness in which it hovers, so that the two forces intensify each other. I think that in the art market, gallerists develop and promote artists (dead or alive) in a way which allows to turn their work into a currency for people with big wallets. And i know, this doesn't make any real sense but that's the way the art.
Soon After, The Painting Was Exhibited In Tokyo Together With Works By Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko And Mark Tobey.
Around a year ago, on may 14, 2013, a painting by hamptons visitor barnett newman, “onement vi,” sold for $43.8 million. The record haul was topped by barnett newman’s blue hued painting, “onement vi” (1953), which sold to an anonymous bidder for $43,845,000. Onement vi is one of the largest and most important works by barnett newman and the abstract expressionist movement.
Barnett Newman Is Well Worth $43.8M.
Paul allen sells newman’s onement vi april 18, 2013 by marion maneker it’s guaranteed and has an estimate that tops out nearly twice the price of its recently sold predecessor but one of barnett newman’s abstract expressionist works is about to come up for sale at sotheby’s this may, according to carol vogel in the new york times : A painting by the seminal american abstract expressionist painter barnett newman goes under the hammer at sotheby’s contemporary art evening sale on 14 may 2013 in new york. Last year a painting by artist barnett newman was sold at an auction by sotheby’s.
At Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction On Tuesday Night, Barnett Newman's Onement Vi Fetched A Record $43.8 Million For The Artist.
This is the first time the artist used a vertical band to define the spatial structure of his work. Barnett newman discovered the power of a single line in 1948, when he ran a stripe of masking tape down the center of a small dark maroon canvas. The nearly $44 million price tag for “onement vi” — which looks like a canvas version of the video game pong — surpassed the estimated $30 million to $40 million price.
Thin Vertical Lines Of Color That Divide The Colors In His Canvasses.
Standing at five feet by three feet, the work features a deep blue canvas divided down the. Sotheby'ssotheby’s contemporary art evening sale totaled. Newman proclaimed onement, i to be his artistic breakthrough, giving the work an importance belied by its modest size.
I Think That In The Art Market, Gallerists Develop And Promote Artists (Dead Or Alive) In A Way Which Allows To Turn Their Work Into A Currency For People With Big Wallets.
Nine years after newman's death, his widow annalee founded the barnett newman foundation. Onement vi by barnett newman overwhelms and seduces the viewer with the totality of its sensual, cascading washes of vibrant blue coexisting with newman’s vertical “sign” of the human presence, his iconic and revolutionary “zip.” as a portal to the sublime, the limitless realm of sumptuous color envelops the viewer and brings life to newman’s assertion that his. Thus he led abstract expressionism and color field painting, impacted related movements, while also being an inspiring art theorist.
