Lot 534
  • 534

SAM FRANCIS | Under the Mountain

Estimate
160,000 - 240,000 HKD
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Description

  • Sam Francis
  • Under the Mountain
  • acrylic on paper
  • 97 by 65 cm; 38 by 25½ in.
signed, titled, dated 1990 and inscribed on the reverse

Provenance

Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF90-179 in consideration for the forthcoming Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.

Exhibited

Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, 10 August - 16 September 2002, p. 83, exh. cat. no. 55, illustrated in colour. This exhibition later travelled in the same to additional venues in Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, September - November 2002; Ehime, Museum of Art Ehime, November - December 2002; Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, April - May 2003; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum, June - July 2003 and Oita, Oita City Art Museum, September - October 2003

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The sheet contains deckle edge. There is very gentle crease to the upper left corner visible under raking light. Upon close inspection, there are hairline craquelures to the yellow impasto on the lower right quadrant. Minor surface fraying and tears to the lower centre, inherent to the artist's execution method.
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