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Tertia
Tertia
Tertia
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Tertia

Artist (USA 1905 - 1970)
Date1964
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 196 × 88 cm Ram: 204,2 × 94,5 cm
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchase 1966
Countries
On view
Stockholm
Object NumberNM 5914
About the artworkAt an exhibition in Berlin a few years ago an agitated visitor fired several pistol shots at one of Barnett Newman's paintings entitled "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue". During the police interrogation he claimed that he felt pressurised, even threatened by the painting. Nothing could be more distant from the harmonious and obvious presence of the painting Tertia in the Museum of Modern Art. The two yellow bands in Newman's painting are of different colours. The left one is a shade of lemon yellow while the right one has a darker, warmer sun-yellow hue. This balance is helped by the "open" meeting of the orange with the white. Everything builds on the weight and tone relationships between the colours.
In his text "The Ideographic Picture" he explained his own and his friends' art on the basis of the concept of  the ideograph, that is, a sign, a symbol, or a figure that conjures up an idea without naming it. This became a kind of manifesto for the New York school's Abstract Expressionism.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på dudkens framsida nedre vänstra hörnet: Barnett Newman 1964, B. Newman, Etiketter på baksidan: The Salomon R Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth avenue, New York 28, N.Y. 193.64 Barnett Newman TERTIA 1964 Oil on canvas, 78 x 35 " Lent by the artist 1964 Circulating Exhibition Guggenheim International Award 1964 KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN Barnett Newman 17/05/97 - 10/08/97, Düsseldorf Kat.-Nr. 'Tertia', 1964 Moderna Museet, Stockholm FONDATION BEYELER BASELSTR. 77, CH-4125 Riehen/Basel CLAUDE MONET 28 März 2002 bis 4 august 2002 BARNETT NEWMAN Tertia 1964 centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou Auteur de l'oeuvre: NEWMAN Titre: Tertia Propriétaire: Moderna museet, Stockholm Selected exhibition history Sju rum och en trädgård. Rashid Johnson och Moderna Museets samling (den 28 september 2023 - den 22 september 2024) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Jorden - globala förändringar (1994) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm LIVET SJÄLVT - om frågan rörande vad det egentligen är; dess materialiteter och dess egenskaper, med tanke på att alla den västerländska vetenskapens och filosofins försök att besvara frågan visat sig otillräckliga (den 20 februari 2016 - den 8 maj 2016) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Efterkrigstid till 1970-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Jorden : globala förändringar : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : 4/6 - 9/10 1994Life Itself : [Moderna Museet Stockholm 20/2-8/5 2016]Jorden : globala förändringar : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna, Stockholm : [4 juni - 9 oktober 1994]