Photograph by Bruce White, Courtesy of the Barnett Newman Foundation. Oil on canvas, 132 1/2 x 50 1/8 inches (336.6 x 127.3 cm). Barnett Newman, American painter whose large, austerely reductionist canvases influenced the colour-field painters of the 1960s. He ‘Ulysses’ was created in 1952 by Barnett Newman in Color Field Painting style. Gift of Adelaide de Menil Carpenter and Dominque de Menil. Barnett Newman's ''Ulysses,'' an epic 1952 blue-and-black striped painting, sold last night for a record price at Sotheby's to an American collector who was not identified.

The Menil Collection, Houston. The son of Polish immigrants, Newman studied at New York City’s Art Students League (1922–26) and at the City College of New York, from which he graduated in 1927. Dec 30, 2012 - Barnett Newman, Ulysses, 1952. From The Menil Collection, Barnett Newman, Ulysses (1952), Oil on canvas, 132 × 50 in Find more prominent pieces of abstract at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.