Sam Francis (1923-1994)

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Details

Sam Francis (1923-1994)
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stamped with artist's signature and the Estate of Sam Francis stamp and numbered 'SF90-3PRS' and 'S4-16NN' (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
30 1/8 x 22 ½ in. (76.5 x 57.2 cm.)
Painted in 1990.

Provenance

The Estate of Sam Francis, California
Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York
Private collection, Toronto
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 7 February 2008, lot 212
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Further details

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF90-3PRS in consideration for the forthcoming Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.

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Lot Essay

“Once more, then, in this fresh exuberance of color—an art, like Suprematism of pure feeling—we find a quasi-geometric structure, a brilliant fusion of those old opposites, the organic and the stable, which had informed Francis’s art from the start.” (W. Agee, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999, pp. 42-43.)

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