Untitled

Details

Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled
stamped with Estate of Sam Francis stamp (on the reverse)
ink on paper
12¾ x 9½ in. (32.4 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1948.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Private collection, Los Angeles

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Constellations of Light and Dark: Black and White on Paper (1947-1954) by Sam Francis, February-April 1995.
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Sam Francis: The Shadow of Colors: Aquarelle und Gouachen, 1948-1984, April -June, 1995.
Los Angeles, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art 1900-1950, November 1996-February 1997.

Lot Essay

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF48-017 in consideration for the forthcoming Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.

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