SAM FRANCIS | Untitled (SFF.1501)

Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris
Galerie Deux, Tokyo (acquired in July 1989)
Private Collection, New York
Private collection, California
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Lausanne
Sale: Christie's, Dubai, International Modern and Contemporary Art, 31 October 2007, lot 164
Galerie Brimaud, Paris
Private Collection, France

Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier, Sam Francis, de 1947 à 1988, sur papier, 21 October - 26 November 1988
Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier, Sam Francis: Toiles de grand format 1988 et 1989, 27 May - 1 July 1989 

Exh. Cat., Galerie Delhaive, Sam Francis: Remembering 1923-1994, Amsterdam, 2004, p. 120, illustrated 
Exh. Cat., Danubiana Art Museum, Sam Francis: Retrospective in Blue, Bratislava, 2010, p. 253, illustrated
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, no. 1501, illustrated in colour on the DVD

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. Visible under close inspection, there are few minor stabilized hairline cracks located on the dark green impasto near the left edge and in the upper right quadrant. Under UV light inspection, there is no trace of any restoration. This work is in very good condition.
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This work is identified with the archival identification number of SFF.1501 in consideration for the forthcoming addendum to the Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, to be published by the Sam Francis Foundation. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.