Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Proceeds to Benefit the Art Fund and Collection Care
Sam Francis
Pleasure Perhaps I
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:26 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Proceeds to Benefit the Art Fund and Collection Care
Sam Francis
1923 - 1994
Pleasure Perhaps I
signed Sam Francis and dated 1962 L.A. (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 1/8 by 16 1/8 in.
50.1 by 41 cm.
Executed in 1962.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Sibyl and William C. Edwards, Jr., Dallas (acquired from the above in June 1967)
Acquired by bequest from the above in 1980 by the present owner
Sibyl and William C. Edwards, Jr., Dallas (acquired from the above in June 1967)
Acquired by bequest from the above in 1980 by the present owner
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, no. SFF.361, illustrated in color on the DVD
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., "Pleasure Perhaps I, Dated as 1962 (SFF.361)," Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, Ongoing
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., "Pleasure Perhaps I, Dated as 1962 (SFF.361)," Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, Ongoing
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis: Werke 1962–1966, 1966, no. 1, p. 11, illustrated in color
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Sam Francis: Oil Paintings and Colored Drawings from 1962 to 1966, 1967, no. 2, illustrated in color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Sybil H. Edwards Bequest, 1981, no. 6
Coral Gables, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art; New Brunswick, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions/An Introduction to Small-Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940-1965, 1989 - 1990, no. 30, fig. 13, p. 41, illustrated
Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism in the Guggenheim Collections, 2005
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Sam Francis: Oil Paintings and Colored Drawings from 1962 to 1966, 1967, no. 2, illustrated in color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Sybil H. Edwards Bequest, 1981, no. 6
Coral Gables, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art; New Brunswick, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions/An Introduction to Small-Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940-1965, 1989 - 1990, no. 30, fig. 13, p. 41, illustrated
Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism in the Guggenheim Collections, 2005