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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Evening Sale | 61 | $****** - ****** | Blue and Red | |||
Nov 19, 1997 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art, Part I | 13 | $****** - ****** | Untitled | |||
Feb 15, 1989 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Pictures & Sculpture | 36 | Estimates not disclosed | Untitled |
paintings
81.3 x 58.4 cm (32.01 x 22.99 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Sam Francis 1953' (on the reverse)
Kimber Smith, Paris. Galerie Krugier et Cie., New York. Martha Jackson, New York, 1971. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.
Private collection, Chicago, 1974.
Private collection, Japan.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 October 1984, lot 10. James R. Hedges IV, Naples.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 February 1989, lot 36.
Private collection.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1997, lot 13. Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Sam Francis, February-March 1959, no. 5. Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Sam Francis, April-May 1963, p. 17, no. 11 (illustrated in color). Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Sam Francis: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 1967-February 1968, no. 19. College Park, University of Maryland, Art Gallery; New York, Finch College Museum of Art and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, June 1973-February 1974, no. 23. New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Francis: The Fifties, October-November 1979, no. 5 (illustrated in color). Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Sam Francis: The Fifties, March-April 1980, p. 23, no. 6. Los Angeles, Asher/Faure Gallery, Robert Elkon Presents Sam Francis: The Fifties in Los Angeles at Asher/Faure, May 1980.
Das Kunstwerk 41, no. 9, March 1963 (illustrated in color on the cover). D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, cat. no. 128, DVD I (illustrated in color).
