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The Clyfford Still Museum has petitioned a Maryland county court to allow the estate of the famed artist’s widow to release four of the artist’s works early to the city of Denver so they can be sold.
Proceeds from the sale, which director Dean Sobel estimates could raise as much as $25 million, would go toward an operations endowment for the privately funded $29 million museum.The works would be offered only to other museums.
In 2004, the artist’s widow, Patricia Still, donated about 2,000 artworks, which the city agreed not to sell or loan. When Patricia Still died in 2005, she left the museum an additional bequest of 400 more works. The four paintings set for sale would come from that group.
