Black Fire I


Black Fire I is a display of abstract expressionism painted by Barnett Newman, in 1961.

Painting Style

Oil on canvas, Color Field painting, .

History and Price

Black Fire I was sold to a private collector for $84.2 million on 13 May 2014 at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, after a telephone bidding war, exceeding the estimations of $50 million made by the organizing house, Christie’s.