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1953, 1961, 8.5 by 10 feet canvas, Abstract Expressionist movement, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Annalee, Barnett Newman, Frederick and Marcia Weisman Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Hartford, Holly Brackenbury, masterwork, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ohio, Onement VI, photograph, Sotheby’s London, Sotheby’s sale of Contemporary Art, vertical ‘zip’, vibrant blue, Vogue, Wadsworth Atheneum
Onement VI (1953)
By Barnett Newman
Size: 8.5 x 10 feet
Estimated price: $30-40 million
Sotheby’s next sale of Contemporary Art is to include the most important painting by Barnett Newman ever to appear at auction. Onement VI from 1953 stands as a masterwork not only of Newman’s artistic enterprise but of the entire Abstract Expressionist movement. Continue reading