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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2022 | Christie's | New York | Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part II | 103 | $****** - ****** | Red No. 1 |
paintings
162.6 x 114.3 cm (64 x 45 in)
oil on canvas
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Guy and Marie-Hélène Weill (acquired from the above, May 1958); sale sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2016, lot 29B.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
New York, Duveen-Graham Gallery; Lincoln, DeCordova Museum; Denver, Daniels & Fishers Department Store; Greeley, Colorado State College; San Jose, Rosicrucian Egypt Museum; Washington, D.C., Howard University; St. Mary-of-the-Wood College; Tallahassee, Florida State University; New York, Martha Jackson Gallery; Macomb County Community College and Lexington, University of Kentucky, New Talent in the U.S.A. , February 1955-October 1957, no. 10.
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, First New York Exhibition of Paintings by Sam Francis , February-March 1956.
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, 1er Salon International de Galeries Pilotes , June-September, 1963 (illustrated in color, p.87).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect: 7th Friends Loan Exhibition, May-June 1964, no. 43 (illustrated, p. 23).
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art; New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Two Decades of American Painting , October 1966-August 1967 (Tokyo and Kyoto: p. 66, illustrated, p. 48; New Delhi: illustrated in color, p. 4).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Sweden, Malmö Konsthall; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Rome, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990 , March 1999-January 2001 (illustrated in color, p. 65, pl. 13, titled as Red 1 ).
B. Rose, American Painting: The 20th Century , Lausanne, 1969, p. 7 (illustrated in color, p. 104).
P. Selz, Sam Francis , New York, 1975, p. 143 (illustrated, pl. 71).
Y. Riopelle, et al., Jean-Paul Riopelle: Catalogue Raisonné, Tome I: 1939-1953 , Montreal, 1999 (illustrated in color, p. 21).
D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994 , Berkeley, 2011, pp. 62 and 334, fig. 63, cat. no. SFF.135, DVD I (illustrated in color).
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
Red No. 1
oil on canvas
64 x 45 in. (162.6 x 114.3 cm.)
Painted in 1953
