LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

112.50 in. (285.75 cm.) (height) by 144.50 in. (367.03 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'Clyfford 1960-F' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Artist's Studio, 128 West 23rd Street, 1960. Westminster, Maryland, Artist's Studio, 1962. Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Clyfford Still , October - December 1963, no. 25 (illustrated in color). New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Clyfford Still , October - November 1969, no. 38, p. 75 (illustrated in color). Houston, Museum of Fine Art, The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960-1970 , January - March 1974, p. 40, no. 55, pl. 14 (illustrated in color). Lubbock, Museum of Texas Tech University; Fort Worth Art Museum; San Antonio Museum; Akron Art Institute; San Diego Museum of Art; Lawrence, University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Lincoln, University of Nebraska; Oklahoma City Art Center; Evanston, Northwestern University, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art; Madison, Art Center; Corpus Christi, State University and Sacramento, Crocker Art Gallery, American Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation , August 1978 - August 1986, cover (illustrated in color). Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, America: Art and the West , December 1986 - April 1987, no. 67 (illustrated in color). Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Exploring Abstraction , July - September 1989, no. 88 (illustrated in color). New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Clyfford Still, Dark Hues/Close Values , October - November 1990, n.p. (illustrated in color). Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Amerikanische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Malerei und Plastik 1913-1993 , May - December 1993, no. 106 (illustrated in color). Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Ausblicke Onnasch , January 1994 - November 1995. Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1997-2001 (on loan). Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani and Museu Serralves, Museu d'Arte Contemporanea, The Onnasch Collection: Aspects of Contemporary Art, November 2001-February 2002, p. 51 (illustrated in color)

Literature:

Time Magazine , 29 November 1963, v. 82, no. 22 (illustrated). T. Sharpless, "Freedom. absolute and infinitely exhilarating," ArtNews , v. 62, no. 7, November 1963, p. 38 (illustrated). C. Still, "An Open Letter to an Art Critic," Artforum , v. 2, no. 5, December 1963, p. 34 (illustrated in color). L. Alloway, "Residual Sign Systems in Abstract Expressionism," Artforum , v. XII, no. 3, November 1973, p. 41 (illustrated in color). Major Works from the Weisman Collection and other Private Collections , exh. cat., Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, 1990, pl. 27 (illustrated in color). B. Kerber, Bestände Onnasch , Berlin and Bremen, 1992, p. 37 (illustrated in color)

Provenance:

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, acquired from the artist Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston Ernst Beyeler, New York, 1987 Gagosian Gallery, New York Onnasch Collection, Berlin, 1992 Sotheby's, New York, May 12, 2004, Lot 20 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner