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Sam Francis
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description
- Sam Francis
- Yellow and Red
- signed and dated 56-58 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 21 by 18 in. 53.3 by 45.7 cm.
- Executed in 1956-58, this work is registered with the Sam Francis Estate as archive number SFP56-21.
Provenance
Eberhard Kornfeld, Bern
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1985
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1985
Exhibited
Ber, Switzerland, Kunsthalle; Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Sam Francis, May - October 1960, cat. no. 35
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Sam Francis - The Fifties, October - November 1979, cat. no. 7, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Sam Francis - The Fifties, March - April 1980, cat. no. 16
New York, Denise Cade Gallery, The 1950s: Painting in Paris, Part One, November - December 1984
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Sam Francis - The Fifties, October - November 1979, cat. no. 7, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Sam Francis - The Fifties, March - April 1980, cat. no. 16
New York, Denise Cade Gallery, The 1950s: Painting in Paris, Part One, November - December 1984
Literature
Catalogue Note
As Francis is a brilliant colorist, like all true artists he draws directly on nature for his sources of inspiration. But his debt to nature is pure draughts of colors which produce forms on his canvases, rather than forms from nature reproduced on his canvases by means of color and light. This is the essentail nature of Francis's naturalistic abstractions.
- James Johnson Sweeney, 1967