Sam Francis (1923-1994)

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Details

Sam Francis (1923-1994)
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signed 'Sam Francis' (on the reverse)
gouache and tempera on paper
15½ x 11 7/8in. (40.3 x 30cm.)
Executed in 1958-59

Provenance

Private Collection, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 1 December 1988, lot 685.
Waddington Galleries, Montreal.
Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London.
B.C. Holland, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Spiess, Ecriture de la Peinture, 1983.

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Lot Essay

This work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation Archives under number SF59-126 adn 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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