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Lot 124
  • 124

Sam Francis

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Sam Francis
  • Bright Ring Drawing
  • gouache on paper
  • 27 by 41 in.
  • 68.6 by 104.1 cm.
  • Executed in 1964, this work is registered with the Sam Francis Estate as archive number SF64-124.

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, Inc., San Francisco
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, Ltd., Sam Francis, June 29-July 17, 1965, no. 6, illustrated
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis: Werke 1962-1966, September 24- October 29, 1966, no. 47
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Sam Francis: Oil Paintings and Colored Drawings from 1962-1966, February 28- March 18, 1967, no. 38
Buffalo, New York, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Sam Francis - Paintings: 1947 - 1972, September 11- October 15, 1972; this exhibition traveled through 1973 to Washington, D.C., Corcoran Art Gallery, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Oakland Museum of Art.
Caracas, Foundacion Eugenio Mendoza, Sam Francis, March 31- April 30, 1974
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sam Francis Works on Paper: A Survey, 1948 - 1979, September 11- October 28, 1980, plate 17, illustrated; this exhibition traveled through 1981 with the Untied States Communication Agency to various countries, inlcuding Hong Kong.

Literature

Art International, December, 1979, illustrated in color