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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 210 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | FOR FRED |
paintings
149.9 x 101.9 cm (59.02 x 40.12 in)
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated Berkeley Calif. 1949 on the reverse
Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 1993
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Oakland Museum, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1972, September 1972 - August 1973, cat. no. 5, p. 36, illustrated
Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February - April 1993, pp. 62-63, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Sam Francis: Les années parisiennes 1950–1961, December 1995 - February 1996, pp. 22 and 74, illustrated in color
Tokuyama City Museum of Art and History, Sam Francis and Sengai: From the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, April - June 1997, cat. no. 2, pp. 18-19, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Arts; Osaka, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, June 2000 – April 2001, cat. no. 3, p. 15, illustrated in color
Toyama, Museum of Modern Art; Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Museum of Art Ehime; Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Museum of Art; Oita City Art Museum, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, August 2002 - October 2003, cat. no. 3, p. 28, illustrated in color
Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1975, pl. 5, p. 28, illustrated
Yves Michaud, Sam Francis, Paris 1992, p. 28, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Amstelveen, Museum Jan van der Togt, Sam Francis, 1992, p. 11, illustrated
Contemporary Great Masters: Sam Francis, Tokyo 1994, p. 11, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1990, 1999, fig. 12, p. 18, illustrated
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, cat. no. SFF.67, illustrated in color on the DVD
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, New Haven 2012, p. 63, illustrated in color
signed, titled and dated Berkeley Calif. 1949 on the reverse
oil on canvas
59 by 40 1/8 in. 149.9 by 101.9 cm.
