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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 1, 2017 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Contemporary Art – Day Sale | 611 | $****** - ****** | UNTITLED |
paintings
182.9 x 122 cm (72.01 x 48.03 in)
acrylic on canvas
signed, stamped with the Sam Francis Estate logo, facsimile signature
stamps and dated 1988 on the reverse
Estate of the Artist
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam (acquired from the above in 1996)
Collection Meulensteen, Slovakia
Sotheby's New York, S|2 Gallery, Sam Francis: The Exploration of Color: A Selling Exhibition, September - October 2011, Lot 32
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Palo Alto, Smith Andersen Gallery, Sam Francis: Four Decades, February - April 1988
New York, Associated American Artists, Sam Francis Prints and Drawings 1957- 1989, January - February 1990 (illustrated in color)
New York, Associated American Artists, New Painting: From Frank Faulkner, Sam Francis, Neil Marshall, Jules Olitski, James Walsh, April - May 1990, cat. no. 7 (illustrated in color)
Bratislava, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Sam Francis: Retrospective in Blue, June - August 2010, pp. 178-9 (illustrated in color)
New York, Sotheby's S|2 Gallery, Sam Francis: The Exploration of Color: A Selling Exhibition, September - October 2011, p. 73, Lot 32 (illustrated in colour)
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, cat. no. 792, illustrated in color on DVD
Pasadena Museum of California Art/Crocker Art Museum, Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, 2013–2014, p.165, fig. 67 (illustrated in color)
signed, stamped with the Sam Francis Estate logo, facsimile signature
stamps and dated 1988 on the reverse, framed
This work is identified with the archival identification number of SFF.1490 in consideration for the forthcoming addendum to the Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, to be published by the Sam Francis Foundation. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation. This work is alternatively registered with the Sam Francis Foundation under archive number SFP88-72 and SFP88-77.
acrylic on canvas
182.9 by 122 cm; 72 by 48 in.
