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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session | 605 | $****** - ****** | Study for Moby Dick, Number Two |
Works on Paper
57.1 x 76.2 cm (22.5 x 30 in)
acrylic and gouache on paper
signed 'Sam Francis' (lower center), signed again and dated 'Sam Francis 1959' (on the reverse)
Martha Jackson, New York, 1961
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1974
College Park, The University of Maryland Art Gallery; New York, The Finch College Museum of Art; Buffalo, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, June 1973-February 1974, no. 25.
Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, no. 27.
Lawrence, University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and American Art, 1940-1990, August-October 1995, pl. 19 (illustrated).
Santa Clara, Triton Museum of Art, A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, November 1995-February 1996, p. 47.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 328 and 363, no. 88, pl. 194 (illustrated).
Skärhamn, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Pacific Light: A Survey of California Watercolor, 1908-2008, May-September 2008, pp. 69 and 168 (illustrated).
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Salon Style: Collected Marks on Paper, March- August 2018.
signed 'Sam Francis' (lower center); signed again and dated 'Sam Francis 1959' (on the reverse)
acrylic and gouache on paper
22 ½ x 30 in. (57.1 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
