Lot Closed
June 3, 01:10 PM GMT
Estimate
45,000 - 55,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
SAM FRANCIS
1923 - 1994
SANS TITRE [UNTITLED]
acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
Executed in 1986.
91,4 x 61,3 cm; 36 x 24⅛ in.
This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF86-070 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.
[acrylique sur papier monté sur toile
Exécuté en 1986.
Cette œuvre est enregistrée sous le numéro de recherche provisoire SF86-070 dans l'attente de la parution du Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper. Cette information est sujette à modifications, les recherches de la Sam Francis Foundation n'étant pas achevées à ce jour.]
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André Emmerich Gallery, New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Knokke-Heist
Private collection, Knokke
Artcurial, Paris, 7 December 2015, Lot 37
Acquired from the above by the present owner
[André Emmerich Gallery, New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Knokke-Heist
Collection particulière, Knokke
Artcurial, Paris, 7 decembre 2015, ot 37
Acquis lors de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel]
Santa Monica, Angles Gallery, Sam Francis, November 1986 - January 1987
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis: New Paintings, April - May 1987
[Santa Monica, Angles Gallery, Sam Francis, novembre 1986 - janvier 1987
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis: New Paintings, avril - mai 1987]
“What we want to make is something that fills utterly the sight, and can’t be used to make life only bearable; if the painting till now was a way of making bearable the sight of the unbearable, the visual sumptuous, then let’s now strip away… all that.”
– Sam Francis in a letter to MOMA curator Dorothy Miller in 1957