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Sam Francis

Untitled SFF679 (SFP77-3)

Auction Closed

September 30, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sam Francis

1923 - 1994

Untitled SFF679 (SFP77-3)



acrylic on canvas

96 by 77⅞ in.

243.8 by 197.8 cm.

Executed in 1977.


This work is identified with the identification number of SFP77-3 in the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project.

Estate of the artist, California

Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Inc., Greenwich

Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2020

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: Art in Progress, 1977–1978

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sam Francis: Peintures récentes 1976–1978, 1978, illustrated

Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Sam Francis: Målningar 1976–78, 1978, illustrated

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Sam Francis: Paintings 1976–1978, 1979 

Pasadena, Pasadena Museum of California Art; Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, August 2013 - April 2014, no. 77, p. 120, illustrated in color

Los Angeles, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Sam Francis, September 2017

Los Angeles, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Sam Francis: The '70s, February - June 2019, p. 13, illustrated in color

Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, cat. no. SFF.679, illustrated in color on the DVD

Debra Burchett-Lere and Aneta Zebala, Sam Francis: The Artist's Materials, 2019, p. 86-88, illustrated in color