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Details

Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Composition
acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
23 5/8 x 53¼in (60 x 135.5cm)
Painted in 1978

Provenance

Galerie Jean-Fournier, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980.

Exhibited

Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, XLII International Exhibition, 1986, no. 711.

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Lot Essay

This work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation Archives under number SF80-020 and will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné of Paintings and Works on Paper, edited by Debra Burchett-Lere and published by the University of California Press.

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