i am sory but i dont like Clyfford
Still.
never have , from looking at his big ones at Albright knox in Buffalo as a kid to present....
i am not alone.
30 million?
well i think perhaps she made a very big performance piece of art -
and maybe has increased the value of this old art dinosaur by bringing him into the present....
well.....
DENVER
(Reuters) - A 36-year-old woman was accused of causing $10,000 worth of
damage to a painting by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford
Still, a work valued at more than $30 million, authorities said on
Wednesday.
A police report said Carmen Tisch punched and scratched the painting, an oil-on-canvas called "1957-J no.2", at the recently opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver and pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it.
Tisch was charged
with felony criminal mischief on Wednesday and has been held on a
$20,000 bond since the incident in late December, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office.
Kimbrough said Tisch
urinated after she rubbed up against the canvas, but whether urine got
on the painting was still under investigation, she said.
Born in North Dakota
in 1904, Still was considered one of the most influential of the
American post-World War Two abstract expressionist artists, although he
was not as well known as others such as Jackson Pollock.
Still died in 1980,
and the city of Denver worked for years with his widow, Patricia, to
secure the single-artist museum. She died in 2005, and her husband's
collection was bequeathed to the city.
Four of Still's works were auctioned by Sotheby's last year for $114 million to endow the Denver museum, which opened with much fanfare in November.
Because Still
closely guarded his works, most of the pieces at his namesake museum had
not previously been displayed.
Tisch will be formally advised of the charges on Friday, Kimbrough said.
(Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Cynthia Johnston)
- Carmen Tisch, who is charged with criminal mischief, is seen in this Denver County …
