Lot 242
  • 242

SAM FRANCIS | Untitled

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Sam Francis
  • Untitled
  • signed and dated 1966 on the stretcher
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 76 by 54 1/8 in. 193 by 13.5 cm.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1997

Exhibited

Ketchum, Ochi Gallery, Sam Francis, Summer 1993

Literature

Yves Michaud and Marcelin Pleynet, Sam Francis, Paris 1992, p. 120, illustrated in color
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, cat. no. 454, illustrated in color on the DVD

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is very minor evidence of wear and handling to the edges. The colors are bright and fresh. Under raking light, there are a few scattered very minor and unobtrusive drip accretions and a few pinpoint brown spot accretions. Ultraviolet inspection, the aforementioned accretions fluoresce brightly along with other drip accretions but are not the result of restoration. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SFF.454 in consideration for the forthcoming addendum to the Sam Francis: Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of Canvas and Panel Paintings. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.