Clyfford Still

Unfurling the Hidden Work of a Lifetime recounts the temporay viewing of Clyfford Still's estate.

"2,393 works [of Clyfford Still]— [have] been hidden from public view for decades. Most of it has never been seen by the public at all, thanks to the fierce privacy and bilious contempt for the art world of its creator, the Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still, who died in 1980 at 75. Despite the relative obscurity of the work, art experts estimate that the collection could fetch more than $1 billion if it ever comes to market, which it probably never will.
The works in question make up the entire estate of this artist. He left behind a one-page will, nearly 95 percent of the work he ever made (he sold or gave away only 150 pieces in his lifetime) and a widow determined to follow his final testament to the letter. The demands were these: His estate could be bequeathed only to an American city, one that would build a museum to serve as a temple to his art and to nothing else. No works could ever be sold. No other artist could ever show a single piece alongside his. All Clyfford Still, all the time."