Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
SAM FRANCIS | DEEP BLUE, YELLOW, RED
Auction Closed
June 30, 01:51 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
SAM FRANCIS
1923 - 1994
DEEP BLUE, YELLOW, RED
signed and dated 1956 Paris on the reverse
oil on canvas
63 ¾ by 51 ½ in. 161.9 by 130.8 cm.
Galerie Klipstein und Kornfeld, Bern
Theodor Ahrenberg, Stockholm (acquired from the above circa 1960)
Galerie Klipstein und Kornfeld, Bern, 10 June 1966, Lot 317
Galerie d’Art Moderne, Basel (acquired from the above sale)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1969)
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1969
Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1975, pp. 156-57, pl. 85, illustrated in color, and p. 254, illustrated (installed in Kunsthalle Bern, 1960)
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2011, p. 67 (text), pp. 70-71, no. 176, illustrated in color, and p. 175 (text)