NEW YORK, N.Y.- On 9 November 2011 the Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s New York will be led by masterpieces by Clyfford Still, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko, among others. Four paintings by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still come from the Estate of Patricia Still and are being sold by the City and County of Denver to further support the endowment of the new Clyfford Still Museum, which is scheduled to open to the public in Denver on 18 November 2011. Abstraction-Figuration: A Private Collection includes one of the most important groups of works by Gerhard Richter ever to appear at auction along with important works by other artists that thrive in the fertile space between abstraction and figuration. The pre-sale exhibition opens on 5 November with selected highlights on view from 28 October. The insightful selection of four paintings from the collection of