Details
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed ‘Sam Francis’ (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
8 3/4 x 16 1/8in. (22.1 x 40.8cm.)
Executed in 1973
Untitled
signed ‘Sam Francis’ (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
8 3/4 x 16 1/8in. (22.1 x 40.8cm.)
Executed in 1973
Provenance
Ruth Schaffner Collection, Santa Barbara (acquired from the artist in 1976).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York 1984, lot 338.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York 1984, lot 338.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Burchett-Lere (ed.), Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, 2022, no. SF73-079.
Exhibited
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Sam Francis, 2014.
Special Notice
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