Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
CLYFFORD STILL | PH-144 (1947-Y-NO.1)
Auction Closed
June 30, 01:51 AM GMT
Estimate
25,000,000 - 35,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
CLYFFORD STILL
1904 - 1980
PH-144 (1947-Y-NO.1)
signed and dated 1947; signed and dated 1947 on the reverse; variously titled and inscribed on the stretcher
oil on canvas
68 ½ by 59 in. 174 by 149.9 cm.
Mr. and Mrs. Max B. E. Clarkson, Buffalo (acquired in 1959)
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in October 1972
Benjamin Townsend, “An Interview with Clyfford Still,” Gallery Notes 24 (Albright-Knox Art Gallery), Summer 1961, p. 15, illustrated
Donald B. Kuspit, "Clyfford Still: The Ethics of Art," Artforum XV, No. 9, 1977, p. 37 (text)
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Paintings by Clyfford Still, November - December 1959, no. 31
Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Clyfford Still in West Coast Collections, 1973
Oakland Museum, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, 1985
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000 - January 2001, pp. 22, 25 (text), p. 68, pl. 9, illustrated in color, and p. 388, no. 292 (text)
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944-1960, June - September 2001, pp. 70-71, no. 12, illustrated in color, and p. 160 (text)