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Painting

Onement VI

Barnett Newman

A blue field split by one vertical. Newman called the zip the beginning of a painting.

Artist
Barnett Newman
Date
1953
Medium
Oil on canvas
Movement
Abstract Expressionism
Origin
United States
Where it is
Private collection

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