Lot 580
  • 580

SAM FRANCIS | Untitled

Estimate
1,000,000 - 2,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Sam Francis
  • Untitled
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 152.7 by 122.2 cm.   60⅛ by 48⅛ in.
  • Executed in 1990.
numbered SFP90-14 on the stretcher and overlap

Provenance

Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner This work is identified with the interim identification number of SFF.1624 in consideration for the forthcoming addendum to the Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.

Exhibited

Santa Monica, Angles Gallery, Sam Francis: Selected Works 1957-1991, April - May 1991
Tokyo & Osaka, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, June 2000 - April 2001 
Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, August - September 2002, p. 84, no. 56, illustrated in colour. This exhibition later travelled in the same to additional venues in Japan: Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Ehime, Museum of Art Ehime; and in 2003 to Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum; Oita, Oita City Art Museum, September 2002 - October 2003

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is minor wear to the corners. Minor surface irregularities with blister marks and impasto separation are original due to artist's working method. No evidence of restoration when examined under ultraviolet light.
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