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Lot 19W

SAM FRANCIS
(1923-1994)
Untitled (SFP66-4)
circa 1965-1966

12 May 2021, 13:00 EDT
New York

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SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

Untitled (SFP66-4)
circa 1965-1966

with the Sam Francis Estate and facsimile signature stamp on the reverse
acrylic on canvas

118 by 86 1/4 in.
299.7 by 219.1 cm.

This work was executed circa 1965-1966.

Footnotes

Provenance
Estate of the Artist, California
Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills
Acquired via the above by the present owner in 2003

Exhibited
Stanford, Stanford University Museum, Recent Paintings by Sam Francis, 1972
Boca Raton, Bruk Kahan Gallery with Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art New York, Sam Francis: Paintings/Works on Paper, 2000
San Francisco, Brian Gross Fine Art, Sam Francis: Work on Paper from the Sixties, 2001
Beverly Hills, Ace Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sam Francis: Edge Paintings, 2003

Literature
Dedication Kusuo Shimizu and Minami Gallery, Tokyo 1985, p. 67, illustrated
Jean-Jacques Leveque, 'Sam Francis: L'esprit de vertige' in Cimaise 16, no. 90, January–March 1969, pp. 54–55, illustrated
Sam Francis: Exposition, Paris 1968, illustrated on the cover
Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, Toyama, Japan 2002, p. 121, illustrated
William C. Agee, Sam Francis: The Edge, Chicago 2000, p. 39, illustrated
Debra Burchett-Lere Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994, Berkeley 2011, SFF.442

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