Lot 578
  • 578

SAM FRANCIS | Untitled

Estimate
200,000 - 400,000 HKD
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Description

  • Sam Francis
  • Untitled
  • acrylic on paper
  • 56 by 75.5 cm.   22⅛ by 29¾ in.
signed and dated 1973 Tokyo on the reverse

Provenance

Minami Gallery, Tokyo
Private Collection, California
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 8 October 1988, Lot 304
Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF73-33 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

Tokyo, Idemitsu Muesum of Arts, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, June - August 2000, p. 36, illustrated in colour

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is slight undulation to the paper. Faint yellowing and light creases are evident along the edges.
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