Sam Francis

Estate of the artist
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Benefit Art Auction, 2000, Lot #L12
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Sam Francis: Blue Balls, May 15 - 27 1961, n.p., illustrated
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Sam Francis Paintings 1947-1972, September 1972 - March 1973, cat. no. 115, p. 117, illustrated
Caracas, Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza, Sam Francis, March 31 - April 30, 1974, cat. no. 10
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sam Francis Works on Paper: A Survey, 1948-1979, September 11 - October 28, 1979

The work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is very faintly yellowed and there is slight wear to the edges. There are pinholes and slight creases at the four corners. The number 20 inscribed by the artist on the verso is the artist's notation that this work was number 20 in the Minami Gallery Show in 1961. The sheet is fully visbale and as such was not examined out of the frame. Framed under Plexi.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming Sam Francis Catalogue Raisonné edited by Debra Burchett-Lere and published by the University of California Press, and is registered with the Sam Francis Foundation as archive number SF60-029.