Lot 35
  • 35

SAM FRANCIS | Untitled (Blue and White)

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Sam Francis
  • Untitled (Blue and White)
  • signed and dated 56 on the reverse
  • watercolor on paper
  • 25 3/4 by 19 3/4 in. 65.4 by 50.2 cm.

Provenance

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
Mrs. David A. Gibbs, London
David Anderson, New York
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 1977

Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, The Exploration of Paint: Karel Appel, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Paul Jenkins, Jean-Paul Riopelle, January - February 1957, cat. no. 22, n.p. (text)
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Sam Francis, Richard Diebenkorn: Two American Painters, Abstract and Figurative, May - June 1965, cat. no. 10, n.p. (text)

Literature

Karen Thomson, Ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal 2015, cat. no. 31, p. 38, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is a very slight undulation to the sheet, evidence of handling and wear to the edges, including light dulling at the corners. There is slight pale time staining to the sheet. The colors are bright and fresh. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat at the interior of all four corners. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"Color is a series of harmonies, everywhere in the universe being divine, whole numbers lasting forever, adrift in time [...] And the last words will be those of the stars." Sam Francis

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF56-205 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.