Black Fire I is a 1961 oil on canvas abstract expressionist painting by Barnett Newman, completed in 1961.

[1][2] Black Fire I was sold to a private collector[3] for $84.2 million ($84,165,000) on May 13, 2014, at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City,[4] after a telephone bidding war, exceeding the estimations of $50 million made by the organizing house, Christie’s.

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