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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 7, 2011 | Phillips | New York | Contemporary Art Part I | 32 | $****** - ****** | Blue Balls I |
paintings
297.8 x 408 cm (117.24 x 160.63 in)
oil on canvas
Signed and dated Sam Francis 1960 on the reverse. Also titled and numbered twice SFP 60-6 Blue Balls along the overlap.
Collection of Betty Freeman, California, 1966 - 1971 Collection of the artist Seiji Tsutsumi, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan
Private collection, New York
Paris, Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Sam Francis: Oeuvres Récentes, June 9 - June 30, 1961 Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sam Francis: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 12 - November, 26, 1967, exh. cat., no. 36, p. 50 (illustrated). This exhibition later traveled to University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, January 15 - February 18, 1968 Basel, Kunsthalle, Sam Francis, April 20 - June 3, 1968, exh. cat., no. 62 (no illus.). This exhibition later traveled to Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, West Germany. June 30 - August 11,1968, exh. cat., no. 33, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. September 13 - November 3, 1968; exh. cat., no. 49 Paris, Centre national d'art contemporain, Sam Francis, December 10, 1968 - January 12, 1969. exh. cat., no. 14 San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, September 3 - November 21, 1976. This exhibition later traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. May 20 - September 11, 1977 New York, Gagosian Gallery, Sam Francis: Blue Balls, May 15 - June 29, 1991, exh. cat., pl. 4 (illustrated) Bonn, Germany, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Sam Francis, February12 -April 18, 1993; exh. cat., pp. 156-57, pp. 412-13 (illustrated) Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art, Abstract Expressionism, organized with Acquavella Galleries, New York, June 6 - July 14, 1996. This exhibition later traveled Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya. July 26 - September 16, 1996; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima. September 29 - November 17, 1996 Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Sam Francis: Les années parisiennes 1950-1961, December 12, 1995 - February 18, 1996; exh. cat., pp. 152-53 (illustrated)
P. Selz, Sam Francis. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975, inside cover, pp. 2-3, and pl. 37, p. 81 (illustrated). Rev. ed., 1982, pl. 37, p. 81 (illustrated) Werkschau in Bonn mit Bildern von Sam Francis. Kolumne Kunst Oper Ballet Fachmagazin (Bonn), March 7, 1993 (illustrated) Sam Francis: De siste arbeider. Oslo: Kaare Berntsen, 2005, exh. cat., p. 30 (illustrated) Sam Francis: A Selection of Paintings 1946-1992. Amsterdam: Gallery Delaive, 2010, p. 4 (illustrated)
