1951-T-No.2

The Detroit Institute of Arts (the USA).

Canvas, oil.

This painting is part of a series of three works made in the same colours and having an almost identical composition. Clyfford Still almost always created series, trying to formulate and express what he conceived in his works as accurately as possible. At the same time, he deliberately avoided causing any associations. He wanted his work not to resemble anything already known in the art, so he never explained his paintings and forbade the curators of his exhibitions and journalists to do this. For the same reason, Still’s works have no names but only the serial number and year of creation.