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Sam Francis

Untitled

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sam Francis

1923 - 1994


Untitled

signed and dated 1979 (on the verso)

acrylic on paper

93.5 by 183 cm. 36¾ by 72 in.

framed: 126.5 by 215 cm. 49¾ by 84¾ in.

Executed in 1979.


This work is identified with the identification number SF72-002 in the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project.

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Estate of the Artist, United States (acquired in 1994)

Chalk & Vermilion, Greenwich (acquired in 1996)

Martin Lawrence Galleries, New York

Taglialatella Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above in 2011 by the present owner

Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, ongoing, no. SF72-002, illustrated (online)

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis: Recent Paintings, May - June 1979

Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, New York, New Art: Contemporary Paintings from New York Galleries, March - April 1983

Ketchum, Ochi Gallery, Sam Francis, Summer 1993

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Sam Francis, November 1997, no. 4, n.p., illustrated in colour

Las Vegas, Las Vegas Art Museum, Sam Francis: Remaking the World, March - April 2002, p. 26, illustrated in colour