Sam Francis
From Disappearance
Estimate:
900,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Philadelphia
Sam Francis
1923 - 1994
From Disappearance
signed and dated 1957New York on the reverse
oil on canvas
72 by 41 in. 182.9 by 104.1 cm.
framed: 76 1/2 by 45 1/2 in. 194.3 by 116.6 cm.
This work is included in the Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, published by the University of California Berkeley Press (UC Press: 2011) under SFF.224 and is also registered in the archives of the Sam Francis Foundation as SFP56-12.
This work is in very good condition overall. Please contact ctpdaysale@sothebys.com for the professional condition report prepared by Modern Art Conservation. Framed.
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Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in December 1957)
Collection of Otto Preminger, New York
Private Collection, California
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1968
Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1982, pl. 89, p. 166, illustrated
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of the Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, cat. no. 224, illustrated in color on DVD I