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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 1, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Contemporary Art | 528 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | REQUIEM FOR SHIMIZU |
paintings
274.5 x 365.8 cm (108.07 x 144.02 in)
acrylic on canvas
numbered SFP79-1 on the overlap
Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired by the present owner from the above
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis: Recent Paintings, 19 May–15 June 1979
Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier, Sam Francis, 20 October–30 November 1979
Milan, Studio Marconi, Sam Francis: Opere dal 1960 al 1983, 12 May–15 June 1983, unpaginated (illustrated)
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, 12 February–18 April 1993, pp. 210–211 (illustrated in colour)
Japan, Tokuyama, Tokuyama City Museum of Art and History, Sam Francis and Sengai: From the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 11 April–1 June 1997, pp. 42–43, pl. 17 (illustrated in colour)
Japan, Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, 10 August–16 September 2002, pp. 76–77, no. 49 (illustrated in colour). This exhibition later travelled in the same to additional venues in Japan: Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 28 September–10 November; Ehime, Museum of Art Ehime, 16 November–23 December; and in 2003 to Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, 5 April–25 May; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum, 3 June–6 July; Oita, Oita City Art Museum, 13 September–26 October
Parinaud, André., Sam Francis: La création est une meditation courte et ardente, Galerie-Jardin des Arts 199, 1980, p. 35 (illustrated in color)
Bosetti, Petra., "Ausstellungen: Bonn—Sam Francis Inseln im Sturm der Farben.", Art (Hamburg) 2 (February 1993), p. 88 (illustrated)
Contemporary Great Masters: Sam Francis, Tokyo, Kodansha, 1994, pl. 54 (illustrated)
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1990, 1999, p. 43, figs. 45–46 (illustrated)
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, p. 109, cat. no. SFF.713, illustrated in colour on DVD
numbered SFP79-1 on the overlap
Executed in 1979.
acrylic on canvas
274.5 by 365.8 cm; 108⅛ by 144⅛ in.
