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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | American Visionary: The Collection of Mrs. John L. Marion | 15 | $****** - ****** | Black and Yellow |
paintings
194.9 x 130.2 cm (76.75 x 51.25 in)
oil on canvas
Darthea Speyer, Paris (acquired by 1960)Private Collection, ChicagoGalerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1972)Sheridan Dufferin, LondonAcquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New YorkAcquired by the present owner from the above in December 1985
Paris, Galerie Paul Facchetti, 10 ans d’activité, May 1959, illustratedKunsthalle Bern, Sam Francis, May - July 1960, no. 22 (text)Kunsthalle Basel; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein; and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Sam Francis, April - November 1968, no. 29 (Basel), no. 16 (Karlsruhe), and n.p., no. 24, illustrated (Amsterdam)Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Summertime, July - September 1970, no. 23 (text)Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Exhibition, June - August 1971Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and Oakland Museum, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1972, September 1972 - August 1973, p. 65, no. 34, illustrated in colorModern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, December 2002 - March 2003
Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Sam Francis: Sweet Beat, September - October 1960Franz Meyer Jr., "Sam Francis," Quadrum 10, Brussels 1961, p. 121, illustrated in colorYoshiaki Tono, Sam Francis: The Flesh of Mist, Tokyo 1964, p. 24 (text), and p. 25, illustrated in color Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2011, no. SFF.178, illustrated in color on the DVDRonnie Self, The Architecture of Art Museums: A Decade of Design 2000 - 2010, London and New York 2014, illustrated in color (installed in Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002-03)
