Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Untitled
Session begins in
May 16, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Bid
200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sam Francis
1923 - 1994
Untitled
acrylic on canvas
96 by 77 ⅞ in.
243.8 by 197.8 cm.
Executed in 1977.
Estate of the artist
Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Inc., Greenwich (acquired from the above in January 1997)
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 2001)
Acquired from the above in 2020 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Toulouse-Labège, Centre régional d’art contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, Sam Francis, November 1991 - February 1992, illustrated in color (on the inside cover)
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, no. SFF.679, illustrated in color (on the DVD)
Debra Burchett-Lere and Aneta Zebala, Sam Francis: The Artist's Materials, Los Angeles 2019, p. 86-88, illustrated in color
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed. "Untitled, Undated (SFF.679)." In Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, Ongoing, illustrated in color (online)
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall; Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Sam Francis: Art in Progress, November 1978 - December 1979, n.p, illustrated (Paris and Stockholm)
Pasadena Museum of California Art and Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, August 2013 - April 2014, no. 77, p. 120, illustrated in color
Los Angeles, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Sam Francis, September 2017
Los Angeles, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Sam Francis: The '70s, February - June 2019, p. 13, illustrated in color
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