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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 4, 2019 | Sotheby's | Paris | Art Contemporain Evening Sale | 34 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | COMING OF THE VIOLET |
paintings
275 x 183 cm (108.27 x 72.05 in)
acrylic on canvas
Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993
Stockholm, Heland Wetterling Gallery, Sam Francis Paintings 1988-1989, 1 March - 4 April 1990; catalogue, illustrated in colour
Glasgow, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Kelvingrove; Edinburg, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Sam Francis Now: Paintings 1989-1990, 12 June - 8 September 1990; catalogue, pl. 8, illustrated in colour
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld, Sam Francis: 40 Years of Friendship - Werke 1945-1990, 6 March - 30 April 1991, catalogue, pl. 71, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven; Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, Sam Francis, 1990, illustrated
Yves Michaud, Sam Francis, Paris, 1992, pp. 60, 223, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, Sam Francis, 1992, p. 16, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, Sam Francis, 1997, p. 32, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Museo d'Arte, Mendrisio, Sam Francis, 1997, p. 18, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, 1998, p. 44, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, 1999, p. 34, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Guy Pieters, Saint-Paul de Vence, Galerie 2003, np., illustrated
Exh. Cat., Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, 2005, p. 83, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam; Broadbent Gallery and Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, Sam Francis: 1923-1994, np., illustrated
Exh. Cat., Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, Sam Francis, Remebering 1923-1994, p. 116, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Sam Francis: Restrospective in Blue., pp. 115, 254-56, 258, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Broadbent Gallery, London, Sam Francis: Selected Paintings 1955-1990, np., illustrated
acrylic on canvas
275 x 183 cm; 108 1/4 x 72 1/16 in.
Executed in 1989.
