Sam Francis (1923-1994)

Blue, Yellow, Red

Details

Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Blue, Yellow, Red
oil on canvas
16¼ x 18 in. (41.2 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1959-1960.

Provenance

David Anderson, New York, 1960
David Anderson Gallery, New York
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Private collection
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 30 June 1994, lot 31
Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings: 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, no. SFF.309 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, American Art: A Selection from Waddington Galleries, 1997, no. 8 (illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

"Color is born of the interpretation of light and dark... Color is a firing of the eye... Color is a pattern that plays across the membrane of the mind... Color is a series of harmonies everywhere in the universe being divine whole numbers lasting forever adrift in time... Color is light on fire... " (S. Francis "Aphorisms" as quoted in P. Hulten, Sam Francis, exh. cat., Germany, 1993, pp. 37-38).

Blue, Yellow, Red

Lot Essay

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