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SAM FRANCIS | UNTITLED (SELF PORTRAIT)
Lot Closed
July 18, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
SAM FRANCIS
1923 - 1994
UNTITLED (SELF PORTRAIT)
signed and dated 1974 on the reverse
acrylic on paper
Sheet: 20 by 14⅛ in. (50.8 by 36 cm.)
Framed: 32⅞ by 27¼ in. (81 by 69.2 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1975)
Mainichi Auction, Tokyo, 2 July 2011, Lot 102
Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner in December 2012
EXHIBITED
Zurich, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis: Ölbilder-Farbige Zeichnungen, April–May 1975, no. 15, illustrated (exhibition catalogue)
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Sam Francis 36 KAOs (Faces) 1973–1977, July 1977, illustrated (exhibition catalogue)
Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1975)
Mainichi Auction, Tokyo, 2 July 2011, Lot 102
Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner in December 2012
Zurich, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis: Ölbilder-Farbige Zeichnungen, April–May 1975, no. 15, illustrated (exhibition catalogue)
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Sam Francis 36 KAOs (Faces) 1973–1977, July 1977, illustrated (exhibition catalogue)
This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF.74-00150; SF74-426 in consideration for the forthcoming Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.