Works from the Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection
Sam Francis
Untitled (Cool Violet)
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Works from the Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection
Sam Francis
1947 - 2005
Untitled (Cool Violet)
watercolor on paper
26 ½ by 40 ½ in.
67.3 by 102.9 cm.
Executed in 1956.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Harris B. Steinberg Collection, New York
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above in June 1983 by the present owner
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Sam Francis: Watercolors and Around the Blues, November - December 1957, cat. no. 3, n.p., (text)
New York, Horace Mann School, A Half-Century of American Art, 1959
Boulder, Henderson Museum Gallery of Art, University of Colorado, Watermedia Painting, July - September 1970, n.p., illustrated
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Sam Francis: Ölbilder und Gouachen, June 1977, cat. no. 11, n.p. (text)
Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, L’oeil du collectionneur, October 1996 - January 1997, p. 58 (text)
Karen Thomson, Ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal 2015, cat. no. 30, p. 37, illustrated in color
Burchett-Lere, Debra, ed. "Untitled (Cool Violet), Dated as 1956-57 (SF57-045)." In Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, ongoing, illustrated in color (online)