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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

Sam Francis

Untitled (Composition)

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

Sam Francis

(1923 - 1994)


Untitled (Composition)

oil on canvas

67 ⅞ by 38 ⅞ in.

172.4 by 98.7 cm.

Executed circa 1956-58.

(possibly) Private Collection, Brussels

(probably) Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne/Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

(probably) Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above circa 1970)

Eugen Pirlet, Cologne (acquired by descent from the above by 1986)

David Zwirner Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Sam Francis: Les années parisiennes 1950-1961, 1995, p. 180, illustrated (in-situ in the artist’s studio, Paris, circa 1956-58)

Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, cat.no. 196, illustrated in color (on DVD-ROM I)

Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., “Composition, Undated (SFF.196),” Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, no. SFF.196, illustrated in color, online (accessed 10 October 2024)

(probably) Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, L'École de Paris dans les collections belges, 1959, no. 67

Cologne, Museum Ludwig (on long term loan 1986-2016)