Lot 14
  • 14

Clyfford Still

Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
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Description

  • Clyfford Still
  • PH-351
  • signed and dated Clyfford 40 1940; signed, dated 1940 and inscribed Painted Pullman on the reverse 
  • oil on canvas
  • 41 x 37 1/2 in. 104.1 x 95.3 cm.

Provenance

Acquired from the estate of the artist by Mrs. Patricia Still

Exhibited

Berkeley, California, Private showing, December 1940
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Paintings by Clyfford Still, March 1943, cat. no. 19
New York, Art of This Century, First Exhibition, Paintings: Clyfford Still,
February – March 1946

Literature

Exh. Cat., San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Clyfford Still, 1976, n.p., illustrated (as exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1943)
Exh. Cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Clyfford Still, 1979, p. 23, illustrated (as exhibited at Art of This Century, 1946) and p. 207, illustrated (as exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1943)
Exh. Cat., Basel, Kunsthalle (and traveling), Clyfford Still, 1904-1980: The Buffalo and San Francisco Collections, 1992, p. 149, illustrated (as exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1943)

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. Please contact the Contemporary Art Department at 212-606-7254 for a condition report prepared by Terrence Mahon. The canvas is framed in a white painted wood strip frame with a small float.
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