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“Onement VI” from abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman sold on Tuesday at a Sotheby’s auction for 43.8 million dollars.
Below you can see a couple of people experiencing how — as Sotheby’s describes it —
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.”
Record Auction Price for Barnett Newman, $43.8 Million, Is Set at Sotheby’s (Published 2013)
The sale, the first of three consecutive evening auctions of contemporary art in Manhattan, totaled $293.6 million.
www.nytimes.com
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