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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled
stamped with the artist's signature and the Estate of Sam Francis stamp and numbered 'Sam Francis SF76-106' (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
32 x 20 in. (82 x 53 cm.)
Painted in 1976.
Provenance
Estate of the artist, California
Private collection, 1996
Private collection
Anon. sale; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 7 December 2007, lot 695
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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Lot Essay

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF76-106 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.

With this new openness, we are given more breathing room in which to move around the paint and the surface, with areas of white now modulating the color zones, pulling them back as we would part a curtain and affording us a glimpse of another kind of space…the space of infinity.” (William C. Agee in Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Op. Cit., p. 74)

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