LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

70.98 in. (180.30 cm.) (height) by 45.00 in. (114.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated "Clyfford Still 1947' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Clyfford Still Exhibition, July-August 1947. New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Twentieth-Century Masters, October-November 1973. New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Six American Painters, October-November 1977 (illustrated in color; titled White Flame). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, October-December 1978. New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Clyfford Still: Dark Hues/Close Values, October-November 1990, n.p. (illustrated in color; titled White Flame). Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944-1960, June-September 2001, pp. 54-54 and 160, no. 4 (illustrated in color). Des Moines Art Center, on loan, June 2017-February 2018.

Literature:

F. du Plessix, "Ossorio the Magnificent," Art in America, vol. 55, no. 2, March-April 1967, p. 58 (installation view illustrated; titled Quest). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Clyfford Still, 1976, p. 129, no. 12. C. Ratcliff, "New York Letter," Art International, December 1977, p. 71 (illustrated; titled White Flame). Clyfford Still, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, p. 208 (installation view illustrated). R. Smith, "Combustible Paintings of a Brooding Legend," New York Times, 15 November 1990. Clyfford Still: The Buffalo and San Francisco Collections, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel, 1992, p. 152, fig. 9 (installation view illustrated). Alfonso Ossorio: Congregations, exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, 1997, pp. 23-24 (installation view illustrated). D. Sobel and D. Anfam, Clyfford Still: The Artist's Museum, New York, 2012, p. 37, fig. 26 (installation view illustrated in color). J. Livingston and A. Liguori, eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One: Essays and References, New Haven and London, 2016, p. 122, fig. 112 (installation view illustrated).

Provenance:

Alfonso Ossorio, New York, acquired directly from the artist Robert Elkon, New York, circa 1967 Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978