Canvas Painted Blue with a White Line Sells for $44 Million in 2013

"Onement VI" from abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman sold on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at a Sotheby's auction for a record-setting 43.8 million dollars.

Above you can see what you missed out on, assuming you're not the buyer...

Here you can see a few people experiencing how — as Sotheby's describes it —

Newman overwhelms and seduces the viewer with the totality of its sensual, cascading washes of vibrant blue coexisting with Newman’s vertical “Sign” of the human presence, his iconic and revolutionary “zip.”