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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 39B | $****** - ****** | Why Then Opened II | |||
Nov 13, 2001 | Christie's | New York | Post-War Art | 46 | $****** - ****** | Why then opened II |
paintings
246.1 x 182.9 cm (96.88 x 72 in)
oil and acrylic on canvas
signed, inscribed and dated 'Sam Francis 1962-63 Venice CALIF.' (on the reverse)
Estate of the artist, 1994
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2001, lot 46
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis: Werke 1962-1966, September-October 1966, p. 7, no. 8 (illustrated in color on the cover).
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Sam Francis: Oil Paintings and Colored Drawings from 1962 to 1966, February-March 1967, n.p., no. 5 (illustrated in color and on the cover).
Kunsthalle Basel; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Mueum, Sam Francis, April-November 1968, n.p., no. 67 (Basel, illustrated in color); n.p., no. 38 (Karlsruhe, illustrated); n.p., no. 54 (Amsterdam, illustrated).
Zurich, Galerie Kornfeld, Eröffnungsausstellung, December 1970-January 1971, n.p., no. 19 (illustrated in color).
Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunstalle, Surrealität-Bildrealität 1924-1974, December 1974-April 1975, p. 30 (illustrated in color).
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld, Sam Francis: 40 Years of Friendship—Werke 1945-1990, March-April 1991, pl. 34 (illustrated).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Sam Francis: Blue Balls, May-June 1991, p. 55, no. 13 (illustrated in color and on the cover).
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February-April 1993, pp. 170-171 and 468 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Sweden, Malmö Konsthall and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, March 1999-August 2000, pp. 41 and 105, pl. 52 (illustrated in color).
New York, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, Sam Francis: Works from the Early 1960s, October-November 2000, n.p., pl. 9 (illustrated in color).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Claude Monet...up to digital Impressionism, March-August 2002, no. 54 (illustrated in color).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler and Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, Poetry in Motion, June-October 2007, p. 25 (illustrated in color).
"Pictorial Review: Sam Francis," Arts Magazine, vol. 41, no. 5, March 1967, p. 59.
P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1975, pp. 188 and 254, pl. 114 (illustrated in color).
P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1982, pp. 89 and 200, pl. 120 (illustrated in color).
R. Smith, "Review/Art: Sam Francis, a Painter at the Height of His Powers," The New York Times, 07 June 1991, B11 (illustrated).
Contemporary Great Masters: Sam Francis, exh. cat., Tokyo, 1994, pl. 40 (illustrated in color).
D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, pp. 94, 97 and 203, fig. 106; no. 369, DVD I (illustrated in color).
signed, inscribed and dated 'Sam Francis 1962-63 Venice CALIF.' (on the reverse)
oil and acrylic on canvas
96 7/8 x 72 in. (246 x 182.8 cm.)
Painted in 1962-1963.
