Sale 1998
New York
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14 May 2008
Price realised
USD 505,000
Estimate
Sam Francis (1923-1994) Sunrise signed and dated 'Sam Francis 1985' (on the reverse) acrylic on canvas 55 x 34 in. (139.7 x 86.4 cm.) Painted in 1985.
Provenance
Prviate collection, Los Angeles James Goodman Gallery, New York Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., Inc., New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991
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Exhibited
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Sam Francis: Recent Work, November-December 1985.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Sam Francis Catalogue raisonné edited by Debra Burchett-Lere and published by the University of California Press, Berkeley and is registered with the Sam Francis Foundation as archive number SFP85-77.
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