Rare Clyfford Still from Artist’s Late Period Expected to Fetch $17 M. at Phillips

Phillips has announced it will sell a rare Clyfford Still painting that go up for auction during the house’s modern and contemporary art evening sale on December 7 in New York, where it will hit the block alongside a $35 million David Hockney landscape. Still’s large-scale crimson and black abstract canvas PH-407 (1964) is expected to achieve a price of $17 million.
The seller, a private West Coast collector, purchased the work from Mitchell-Innes Nash in New York. Prior to that it r