IMPORTANT BARNETT NEWMAN STYLE "ZIP" MINIMAL COLOR FIELD OIL PAINTING C. 1970'S!

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IMPORTANT BARNETT NEWMAN OR AFTER BARNETT NEWMAN "ZIP" MINIMAL COLOR FIELD OIL PAINTING C. 1970'S! This listing is being relisted to previous buyer's non-payment. Their loss is your opportunity to get this incredible work of art! This incredible painting comes fresh from a Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania estate. The painting is in great condition considering its age. Done in the trademark style of Barnett Newman. Whether this is by Newman is a mystery. We can, however, guarantee that this is from the 1970's or earlier - as this was framed during that time by The Loft Art Gallery in Princeton, New Jersey. According to our research, The Loft Art Gallery in Princeston was in business from 1973 - 1978 and owned by a Craig and Marsha Newman. This is either done by Newman or by someone during the same time frame after Newman's style. In regard to artist, we cannot make guarantees . Regardless, it's an original work from the Color Field Minimalist Movement era which is incredibly hard to come by. Excellent for a Mid Century Modern collection. The painting's condition has some craquelure with age, minor scuffs/scratches. Sold as-shown, as-is. The condition can be easily restored by a conservator. This is one of MANY important artworks for auction this week INCLUDING ANOTHER COLOR FIELD PAINTING SIGNED BY LUDWIG SANDER! Be sure to view our other other listings ! Painting 42" x 36" inches About Barnett Newman ( Wikipedia ):"Newman wrote catalogue forewords and reviews and also organized exhibitions before becoming a member of the Uptown Group and having his first solo show at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1948. Soon after his first exhibition, Newman remarked in one of the Artists' Session at Studio 35: "We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image." Utilizing his writing skills, Newman fought every step of the way to reinforce his newly established image as an artist and to promote his work. An example is his letter on April 9, 1955, "Letter to Sidney Janis: ...it is true that Rothko talks the fighter. He fights, however, to submit to the philistine world. My struggle against bourgeois society has involved the total rejection of it."Throughout the 1940s he worked in a surrealist vein before developing his mature style. This is characterised by areas of color separated by thin vertical lines, or "zips" as Newman called them. In the first works featuring zips, the color fields are variegated, but later the colors are pure and flat. Newman himself thought that he reached his fully mature style with the Onement series (from 1948). The zips define the spatial structure of the painting, while simultaneously dividing and uniting the composition. The zip remained a constant feature of Newman's work throughout his life. In some paintings of the 1950s, such as The Wild, which is eight feet tall by one and a half inches wide (2.4 meters by 2 centimeters), the zip is all there is to the work. Newman also made a few sculptures which are essentially three-dimensional zips.Although Newman's paintings appear to be purely abstract, and many of them were originally untitled, the names he later gave them hinted at specific subjects being addressed, often with a Jewish theme. Two paintings from the early 1950s, for example, are called Adam and Eve (see Adam and Eve), and there is also Uriel (1954) and Abraham (1949), a very dark painting, which as well as being the name of a biblical patriarch, was also the name of Newman's father, who had died in 1947. The Stations of the Cross series of black and white paintings (1958–66), begun shortly after Newman had recovered from a heart attack, is usually regarded as the peak of his achievement. The series is subtitled "Lema sabachthani" - "why have you forsaken me" - the last words spoken by Jesus on the cross, according to the New Testament. Newman saw these words as having universal significance in his own time. The series has also been seen as a memorial to the victims of the holocaust. Newman's ... read more

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