Untitled (1974)

The Museum of Modern Art of San Francisco (the USA).

Canvas, oil.

In the late period of his career, after moving to a remote rural area in Maryland, Still somewhat changed the style of his paintings. Those were still large abstract works, only their colour palette became brighter, and the structure was more loose and uneven. In this painting, the artist left a large area of the canvas empty, giving the surface a characteristic texture and lightness and transparency to the entire composition. The colour fields against this background are not monolithic, they are torn and fragmentary, and instead of creating the effect of struggle and tension, they smoothly flow down the canvases, gradually losing their shape and as if dissolving in the surrounding space.