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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 29 | $****** - ****** | DEEP BLUE AND BLACK | |||
Jun 18, 2010 | Galerie Kornfeld | Bern | Kunst des 19. und 20 Jahrhunderts, Teil I | 34 | $****** - ****** | Deep Blue and Black |
paintings
195.6 x 130.8 cm (77.01 x 51.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed on the reverse; signed, inscribed Black Blue and dated 55 on the stretcher
Dr. and Mrs. Everhard W. Kornfeld, Switzerland (acquired in 1956)
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 18, 2010, Lot 34
Duhamel Fine Art, Paris (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis Ausstellung: Ölbilder, Aquarelle 1953-1958, January - February 1959, cat. no. 5, n.p., illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the announcement
Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Sam Francis, February - March 1959, cat. no. 11, illustrated in color
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Sam Francis, May - July 1960, cat. no. 25, n.p., illustrated in color
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Sam Francis: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 1967 - February 1968, cat. no. 17, p. 6, illustrated (in installation)
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Sam Francis, April - November 1968, cat. no. 31, illustrated in color (Basel only)
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas, Dallas Art Museum; Oakland, Oakland Museum, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1972, September 1972 - August 1973, cat. no. 33, p. 64, illustrated
Aarhus, Denmark, Kunstforening, 26 Franske Kunstnere, May 1977, no. 93
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld, Sam Francis: 40 Years of Friendship - Werke 1945-1990, March - April 1991, cat. no. 16, illustrated in color
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February - April 1993, pp. 114-115, illustrated in color
Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Wolkenbilder: von John Constable bis Gerhard Richter, February - May 2005, p. 131, illustrated in color
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Sam Francis und Bern, March - June 2006, p. 74, illustrated in color
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Privatsammlungen und aus dem Kunstmuseum Winterthur, August - November 2006, cat. no. 55, p. 75, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Sam Francis: Sweet Beat, 1960, illustrated in color
Masterpieces of the World, Vol. 25, Tokyo, 1960, p. 30, illustrated
Yoshiaki Tono, Sam Francis: The Flesh of Mist, Tokyo, 1964, p. 59, illustrated
Yves Michaud, Sam Francis, Paris, 1992, p. 82, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, 1999, fig. 31, p. 34, illustrated
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, fig. 71, p. 69, illustrated in color and cat. no. 171, illustrated in color on DVD
