

Untitled
1968
Executed in 1968 near the close of Newman's career, this intimate screenprint distills the essential vocabulary for which he became one of the defining voices of postwar American abstraction. Measuring just under 25 by 16 centimeters, the work operates at a scale that is deliberately personal, inviting sustained, close attention rather than the monumental confrontation associated with his large canvas paintings. The composition exemplifies Newman's lifelong preoccupation with presence and contingency, using the spare language of color and the vertical "zip" to generate a field of tension that feels simultaneously still and charged with latent energy. Newman occupies a singular position within Abstract Expressionism, bridging its gestural origins with the more measured, meditative concerns of Color Field painting. His work carries an explicitly existential dimension, concerned not merely with formal relationships but with the lived experience of standing before a picture, of occupying space, of being situated in time. This print, part of an edition of 150 and hand-signed by the artist, translates those concerns into a reproducible format without sacrificing the quality of encounter that defines his practice at every scale. For collectors, a signed Newman print of this period represents a meaningful point of access to one of the twentieth century's most consequential bodies of work. Works on paper by Newman in any form are comparatively scarce, and this example, bearing his signature and produced in a carefully controlled edition, carries the full authority of his vision. The absence of a frame leaves the collector free to present the work according to personal sensibility, allowing for choices that can further shape and honor the composition's quiet but insistent dialogue with its surroundings.
- Medium
- Screen print on paper
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · EHC Fine Art Gallery Auction
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