View full screen - View 1 of Lot 339. Green Buddha.

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

Sam Francis

Green Buddha

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

Sam Francis

1923 - 1994


Green Buddha

signed and dated 1977 (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

36 by 48 in.

91.4 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in 1977. 

Galerie Kornfeld, Bern
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1992)
Christie's New York, 16 November 2006, lot 281
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld, Sam Francis: Ausstellung, Ölbilder und farbige Zeichnungen von 1976–1983, March - April 1983, no. 2, illustrated in color 
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, no. SFF.687, illustrated in color on the DVD
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed. "Green Buddha, Dated as 1977 (SFF.687)." In Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, Ongoing, illustrated in color (online)