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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 9, 2021 | Christie's | New York | Post-War to Present | 53 | $****** - ****** | Untitled | |||
May 12, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 129 | $****** - ****** | UNTITLED | |||
Nov 10, 2015 | Bonhams | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 36 | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
Works on Paper
76.2 x 55.9 cm (30 x 22 in)
gouache and watercolor on paper
<font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Gimpel Fils Gallery, Ltd., London Private collection, London, 1957 Anon. </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1977, lot 405 Waddington Galleries, London Benjamin Frankel, Jupiter, Florida, 1978 Jan Krugier Gallery, New York Waddington &, Tooth Galleries, London Private collection, Paris Private collection, New York, 1997 Private collection , Liechtenstein Acquired from the above by the present owner</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
<font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Ltd., Sam Francis: Oil Paintings and Watercolors, May-June 1957, no. </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">17. New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Sam Francis, May 2010. New York, Hammer Galleries, On Paper, April-August 2012. London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Sam Francis, June-August 2014.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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Lot Essay
"An aqueous medium is better suited to his lyricism … It is quite a task to suggest the element of chance, impromptu meetings and fallings away – as Francis does – and still remain master of your means."
—D. Ashton, "Art", Arts and Architecture, vol. 761, no. 2, February 1959, p. 31
