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Property from a Private American Collection

Sam Francis

Yellow, Orange and Blue

This lot has been withdrawn

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Property from a Private American Collection


Sam Francis

1923 - 1994


Yellow, Orange and Blue

signed Sam Francis (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

55 ⅛ by 27 ½ in.

140 by 69.8 cm.

Executed in 1958.

Please note this work has been withdrawn.

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London

E.J. Power, London (acquired from the above in July 1953)

Waddington Galleries, London (acquired in 1976)

William Pall Gallery, New York 

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above on 4 October 1976)

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above on 11 November 1977)

Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, A Washington Year: A Contemporary View 1980-81, 1982, p. XX

Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Pastel Paintngs, 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, no. SFF.258, illustrated in color (on DVD-ROM I)

Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., “Yellow, Orange and Blue, Undated (SFF.258),” Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, no. SFF.258, illustrated in color, online (accessed 22 April 2024)

Kunsthalle Bern, Sam Francis, 1960, no. 37

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Sam Francis, 1960, no. 24

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Sam Francis: Ölbilder und Gouachen, 1977, no. 13

Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Color, Color, Color: American Painting and Sculpture, 1982