“My idea was that with an automatic move you could create a world [Newman's comment on his series small mixed media works, 1944].”

—  Barnett Newman

1940 - 1950
Source: Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1990, p. 112

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