Lot 313
  • 313

Sam Francis

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Sam Francis
  • Untitled
  • signed and dated Tokyo 1965 on the reverse
  • gouache on paper
  • 29 by 40 1/2 in. 73.8 by 102.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1965, this work is registered with the Sam Francis Estate under archive number SF65-058.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Acquired by the present owner directly from the above


 

Exhibited

New York and Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, The Edge, April - September 2000, p. 19, illustrated in color
San Francisco, Brain Gross Fine Art, Sam Francis: Works on Paper from the Sixties, October - December 2001
 

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. There is a slight evidence of rippling to the paper. There is evidence of minor surface abrasions and four small vertical tears to the sheet, which have been repaired and as such have a very unobtrusive appareance to the composition. Framed under Plexiglas.
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