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Lot 14: CLYFFORD STILL

Est: $1,000,000 USD - $1,500,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USNovember 09, 2011

Item Overview

Description

SOLD BY THE CITY OF DENVER, TO BENEFIT THE CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM
1904 - 1980
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.

Artist or Maker

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)

Provenance

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

Auction Details

Contemporary Art Evening Auction

by
Sotheby's
November 09, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US