Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Barnett Newman (1905-1970)

Untitled

细节
Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Untitled
ink on paper
12 x 9 in. (30.3 x 22.7 cm.)
Painted in 1960.
来源
Collection of Annalee Newman, New York
John R. Gaines, Lexington, Kentucky
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner
出版
H. Rosenberg, Barnett Newman, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1978, no. 190 (illustrated).
R. Shiff, C. Mancusi-Ungaro and H. Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 441, no. 194 (illustrated in color).
展览
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Barnett Newman: The Complete Drawings, 1944-1969, April-June 1979, pp. 190-191, no. 76 (illustrated).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Barnett Newman: Tekeningen 1944-1969, September-October 1980, no. 66.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Barnett Newman: Les dessins 1944-1969, November 1980-January 1981, no. 72.
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Barnett Newman: Das zeichnerische Werk, February-March 1981, no. 71.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Barnett Newman: Das zeichnerische Werk, May-July 1981, no. 71.

拍品专文

Barnett Newman's work is rooted in the spatial experience of the pictorial field, which the artist discovered and developed in small-scale drawings. They are not preparatory sketches for his larger canvases but fields of exploration for the artist to develop his ideas. "It would seem that it was the energy and discovery in the drawings that directly led Newman to effective and fulfilling work on painting"(B. Richardson, "Barnett Newman: Drawing his Way into Painting," in The Baltimore Museum of Art, Barnett Newman, the Complete Drawings, 1944-69, exh. cat., Baltimore, 1979, p.16).

"When an artist wants to change, when he wants to invent, Newman once said, he goes back to black; it is a way of clearing the table - of getting to new ideas" (quoted in op. cit., pp. 13-14). Newman executed the present work in 1960, along with 21 other works showing his archetypal motifs - the vertical zips - applied in black ink on white paper. "For Newman, black became almost synonymous with drawing, and drawing almost synonymous with invention, with change, with 'getting new idea'" (op. cit., p. 14).

The 1960 drawings constitute a crucial step in the development of Newman's contemporaneous and seminal series, The Station of the Cross. In the drawings, Newman seems to concretize the idea he had in 1958, when he painted the first Station, in a more cohesive aesthetic program. "The [1960] drawings are a kind of incubation for the Stations, not in the sense of preparatory studies but as the preliminary exploration necessary for Newman to confirm his visual instincts, to achieve a sense of conviction (both metaphorically and formally) about the direction he found the work taking in 1958-60."( B. Richardson, "The 1960 Drawings" in The Baltimore Museum of Art, Barnett Newman, the Complete Drawings, 1944-69, exh. cat., Baltimore, 1979, p.158).