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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 1, 2019 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Contemporary Art | 536 | $****** - ****** | UNTITLED |
paintings
305.5 x 213.5 cm (120.28 x 84.06 in)
acrylic on canvas
numbered SFP89-53 on the stretcher and overlap
Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Amsterdam, Gallery Delaive and Galerie Willy Schoots, Sam Francis, 25 April - 16 May 1990, exh. cat. no. 38, illustrated in colour
Glasgow, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Sam Francis Now: Paintings 1989-1990, 12 June - 16 July 1990, exh. cat. no. 3, illustrated in colour. This exhibition later travelled in the same to additional venues in Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery, 9 August - 8 September 1990
Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, 10 August - 16 September 2002, p. 83, exh. cat. no. 55, illustrated in colour. This exhibition later travelled in the same to additional venues in Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, September - November 2002; Ehime, Museum of Art Ehime, November - December 2002; Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, April - May 2003; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum, June - July 2003 and Oita, Oita City Art Museum, September - October 2003
S. Muchnic, "The Arbiter: Making Book", Connoiseeur Vol. 221 (July 1991), p. 28, illustrated
Y. Michaud & M. Pleynet, Sam Francis, Editions Daniel Papierski, Paris, 1992, p. 221, illustrated in colour
D. Burchett-Lere ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and PAnel Paintings, 1946-1994, University of California Press and Sam Francis Foundation, Berkeley, 2011, cat. no. SFF.1565, illustrated in colour on DVD I.
numbered SFP89-53 on the stretcher and overlap
Executed in 1989
acrylic on canvas
305.5 by 213.5 cm; 120¼ by 84 in.
