Sotheby`s Sells Group of Clyfford Still Paintings for $114 Million

10.11.2011 [12:30]
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Baku, November 10 (AZERTAC). Sotheby`s rounded out New York`s major fall auctions Wednesday by selling a quartet of Clyfford Still paintings for $114 million, nearly twice their combined asking price.

Still, a lanky artist born in North Dakota in 1904, visited New York after World War II and fell in with the city`s leading Abstract Expressionist painters like Mark Rothko. Unlike Rothko`s pulsing rectangles, Still gained a reputation for slathering his own canvases with jagged shards of color.

Before he died in 1980, Still asked his wife, Patricia, to hang onto some of his early works in case a city ever built a museum devoted to his art. On Nov. 18, Denver will open its Clyfford Still Museum—and receive the proceeds from the sale of these four works at Sotheby`s. That`s because Ms. Still agreed to give the works to the city of Denver to boost the museum`s endowment. (The museum has at least 825 additional Still paintings in its collection.)

Sotheby`s Sells Group of Clyfford Still Paintings for $114 Million

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