LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

62.99 in. (160.00 cm.) (height) by 40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Clyfford Still and dated 1947 (lower right); signed Clyfford and titled PH-218 and inscribed 1947-K twice on the reverse

Exhibited:

San Francisco, California School of Fine Arts, Private Showing, 1947 New York, Cornelia Street Studio, Private Showing, 1948 New York, 23rd Street Studio, Private Showing, 1955, 1956 and 1957 Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Paintings by Clyfford Still, November 5 - December 13, 1959, no. 27 Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Clyfford Still, October 18 - December 15, 1963, no. 5, illustrated in the catalogue . New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., Clyfford Still, November 1969 - January 1970, cat. no. 10, illustrated in color in the catalogue (as 1947-K). Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Contemporary Art from Dayton Collections, June 23 - September 16, 1970

Literature:

Mizue Magazine, no. 726, Japan, August 1965, illustrated John P. O'Neill, ed., "Documentary Photographs," Clyfford Still (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, illustrated p. 210 (in installation at Albright Art Gallery, 1959). Dean Sobel and David Anfam, Clyfford Still: The Artist's Museum, New York, 2012, fig. 15, illustrated p. 27 (in installation at Albright Art Gallery, 1959)

Provenance:

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired from the artist in 1969) Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Philips, Dayton, Ohio Hokin Gallery, Chicago Barbara Divver Fine Arts, New York Acquired from the above by A. Alfred Taubman in January 1981