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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Sam Francis 1977' (on the reverse)
acrylic and ink on card
36 x 84 in. (91.4 x 213.4 cm.)
Executed in 1977

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1970s.

Exhibited

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: Art in Progress, 1978-1979 (illustrated, unpaged) This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Centre Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne and Stockholm, Liljevalchs konsthall.
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis: Recent Paintings, 1979.

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Further Details

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF77-118 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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