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Painted canvas fragment

Painted canvas fragment

1905 - 1970

Barnett Newman

American

Painted plain weave cotton duck canvas fragment with knife cut edges and a white ground layer. The fragment has a partial turn edge and tacking margin with staple holes. The fragment is painted reddish orange up to the turn edge. There are accretions stuck to the paint surface and a scrap of kraft paper is stuck to a drip of paint on the raw canvas tacking margin.

Fragments