Contemporary Art Day Auction
Contemporary Art Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished Japanese Museum Collection
SAM FRANCIS | JAPAN SPRING
Auction Closed
June 30, 09:53 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Japanese Museum Collection
SAM FRANCIS
1923 - 1994
JAPAN SPRING
signed and dated Tokyo 64 on the reverse
oil on canvas
110¼ by 134¼ in. 280 by 341 cm.
Executed in 1962-1964.
Idemitsu Art Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner in December 1980
Makoto Ooka, "Samu Furanshisu ni sotte," Gendai Bijutsu 1, January 1965, p. 58, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Dedication Kusuo Shimizu and Minami Gallery, 1985, p. 55, illustrated
Contemporary Great Masters: Sam Francis, Tokyo 1994, pl. 60, illustrated
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, cat. no. SFF.385, illustrated in color on the DVD