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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2018 | Christie's | London | Post War and Contemporary Art Day Auction | 240 | $****** - ****** | Iris |
paintings
227.3 x 180.3 cm (89.5 x 71 in)
acrylic on canvas
A gift from the artist to the present owner in 1974.
Tokyo, Tokyo Central Bijutsukan Gallery, Sam Francis, 1968 (illustrated in colour).
Los Angeles, Felix Landau Gallery, Sam Francis: Paintings and Gouaches, 1969-1970, no. 4 (illustrated).
Los Angeles, Felix Landau Gallery, Modern Master Watercolors and Drawings, no. 4 (illustrated).
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1972, 1972-1973, p. 88, no. 58 (illustrated in colour). This exhibition later travelled to Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Oakland, Oakland Museum.
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947 - 1990, 1999-2001, no. 56 (illustrated in colour, p. 109). This exhibition later travelled to Houston, Menil Collection; Malmö, Malmö Konsthall; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Rome, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.
J.-J. Leveque, 'Sam Francis: L'espirit de vertige', in Cimaise, vol. 16, no. 90, January-March 1969, pp. 54-55 (illustrated).
C. Belz, 'Fitting Sam Francis into History', in Art in America, vol. 61, no. 1, January-February 1973, pp. 40-45 (illustrated in colour, p. 44).
P. Selz, 'Sam Francis: The Recent Work', in Art International, vol. 17, no. 1, January 1973, pp. 14-17 (illustrated in colour, p. 15).
P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1975, pp. 99, 101, no. 47 (illustrated in colour, p. 100).
Dedication Kusuo Shimizu and Minami Gallery, exh. cat., Tokyo, Minami Gallery, 1985 (illustrated, p. 67).
Sam Francis, exh. cat., Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, 1988 (illustrated, p. 17).
Sam Francis: The Edge, exh. cat., Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, 2000 (studio view illustrated, p. 39).
Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection, exh. cat., Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, 2002 (studio view illustrated, p. 121).
D. Burchett-Lere (ed.), Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, pp. 98, 210, 241, no. 428 (illustrated in colour, p. 99; illustrated in colour, DVD I).
G. Selz, Unstill Life, New York 2014 (illustrated, p. 255).
acrylic on canvas
89 ½ x 71in. (227.3 x 180.3cm.)
Painted in 1965-1967
