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SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
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SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

Untitled

Details
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed 'Sam Francis' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
41 7/8 x 54 in. (106.2 x 137.2 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1984
Literature
D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, digital, ongoing, no. SFF-996 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis: New Work, November-December 1984.
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Lot Essay

"Once more, then, in this fresh exuberance of color—an art, like Suprematism of pure feeling—we find a quasi-geometric structure, a brilliant fusion of those old opposites, the organic and the stable, which had informed Francis’s art from the start." William C. Agee, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1999, pp. 42-43.

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