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Property from an Important American Collection
Blue Sky Painting (SF60-044)
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July 21, 05:12 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sam Francis
1923 - 1994
Blue Sky Painting (SF60-044)
signed on the reverse
gouache on paper
Sheet: 12 by 12 in. (30.5 by 30.5 cm.)
Framed: 21¼ by 21 in. (54 by 53.3 cm.)
Executed in 1960.
This work is identified with the identification number of SF60-044 in the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project.
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Yoshiaki Tono, Sam Francis or After the Death Mask, Mizue, Tokyo 1961, cover, illustrated in color
Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1975, p. 77, illustrated in black and white pl. 36
Peter Selz et. al. Sam Francis, New York 1982, p. 77, illustrated in black and white, pl. 36
Michel Waldberg, Sam Francis: Metaphysics of the Void, Toronto 1987, p. 116, illustrated in color
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; Sapporo, Japan, Sapporo American Center; Fukuoka City, Japan, Fukuoka City Museum of Art; Kyoto City, Japan, Kyoto City Museum of Art; Osaka, Japan, Osaka American Center; Manila, Philippines, American Cultural Center; Manila, Philippines, Gallery of the Cultural Center for Philippines; Taipei, Taiwan, American Institute in Taiwan American Cultural Center; Kaohsiung, Taiwan, American Institute in Taiwan, Cultural Center; Hong Kong, Pao-Sui Loong Galleries, Hong Kong Art Centre (A Hong Kong Arts Centre and American Consulate General joint presentation); Seoul, South Korea, American Embassy Exhibition Hall; Taegu, South Korea; Pusan, South Korea; Kwangju, South Korea, Sam Francis: Works on Paper, a Survey 1948–1979, September 1971 - June 1981
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Riva Yares Gallery, Sam Francis: Paintings on Paper and Monotypes, December 1994
Madrid, Sala de las Alhajas, Fundación Caja de Madrid, Sam Francis: Elementos y arquetipos, April – June 1997