Bright Ring Drawing

Details

Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Bright Ring Drawing
signed, dated and inscribed 'Sam Francis March 1964 Tokyo' (on the reverse)
watercolour on paper
40 7/8 x 27 1/8in. (103.7 x 69cm.)
Executed in 1964

Provenance

Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern.
Acquired by the late Ernst Beyeler, Basel.

Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Sam Francis, 1965, no. 17 (illustrated).
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis: Werke 1962-1966, 1966, no. 52 (illustrated)
Bonn, Galerie Pudelko, Sam Francis, 1993, no. 8 (illustrated in colour).
Mendrisio, Museo d'Arte di Mendrisio, Sam Francis, 1997 (illustrated in colour, p. 79).

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Lot Essay

This work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation Archives under number SF64-088 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of paintings and works on paper, edited by Debra Burchett-Lere and published by the University of California Press.

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