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Details
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed 'Sam Francis' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1986.
Untitled
signed 'Sam Francis' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1986.
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987
Literature
D. Burchett-Lere, ed. Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, no. SFF.1371, DVD I (illustrated).
D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, digital, ongoing, no. SFP86-121 (illustrated).
D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, digital, ongoing, no. SFP86-121 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis: New Paintings, April-May 1987.
Further Details
“My work isn’t illustrative of anything. My aim is to get to the essence, not to reproduce an outer image. I want to reach something deeper, something more primeval” - Sam Francis (S. Francis, quoted in Sam Francis, exh. cat., Mendrisio, Museo d’arte, 1997, pp 59.)
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