Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Sam Francis

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