![Big, Blue $43.8 million Newman “Zip” Painting leads Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale – UPDATED with sale results. | Nord on Art Big, Blue $43.8 million Newman “Zip” Painting leads Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale – UPDATED with sale results. | Nord on Art](https://nordonart.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/30-40-lot-17.jpg?w=640)
Big, Blue $43.8 million Newman “Zip” Painting leads Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale – UPDATED with sale results. | Nord on Art
Today Is Art Day - Do you know what a zip is? It's what Barnett Newman called his thin vertical lines which separate the areas of color in his work. These zips
![National Gallery of Art on Twitter: "Newman made a zip by applying tape to the canvas, painting over it, and then pulling it off, revealing a vertical negative space. https://t.co/IUl12SyKqw" / Twitter National Gallery of Art on Twitter: "Newman made a zip by applying tape to the canvas, painting over it, and then pulling it off, revealing a vertical negative space. https://t.co/IUl12SyKqw" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUyvuUYXYAEbotd.jpg:large)