Sam Francis

Untitled

Auction Closed

May 13, 09:05 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Global Abstractions: Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

Sam Francis

1923 - 1994

Untitled

signed and dated 1958 on the reverse

gouache and watercolor on paper

30 ¼ by 22 ¼ in. 76.8 by 56.5 cm.

framed: 38 ¾ by 30 ½ in. 98.4 by 77.5 cm.

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Beverly Hills
L&M Arts, New York
Private Collection, Kansas City
Hackett Mill, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery; New York, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts; Oakland Museum of Art, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1972, September 1972 - August 1973

St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art; Seattle, Henry Art Gallery; Santa Barbara Museum, American Drawing 1927-1977, September 1977 - May 1978

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis The Early Years: 1955 to 1963, June - July 1986, illustrated in color on the cover

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey; Zacatecas, Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Abstracciones: Nueva York, París, Cuenca, México, November 2015 - June 2016, pp. 124-125 and 219, illustrated in color, and illustrated in color on the spine