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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 10 | $****** - ****** | Reefs |
paintings
96.5 x 130.2 cm (37.99 x 51.26 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Sam Francis 55' (on the reverse)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, New York, 1969. Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Private collection, Japan. Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Bloomington, Indiana University, Contemporary American Abstract Expressionists, March 1959. New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Treasures from the Inventory I: Seventeen Loves. Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration 1953-1968, October-November 1967, p. 8 (illustrated in color). Kunsthalle Basel and Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, Sam Francis, April-August 1968, no. 33 (Basel) and no. 17 (Karlsruhe). New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Sam Francis: The Fifties, December 1974-January 1975. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends' Collection, July-October 1977. New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Sam Francis: Early Works, February-April 1984. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Wege zur Abstraktion, July-September 1989, no. 25 (illustrated in color). Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Joie de vivre, June-September 1997, pp. 69, 75, no. 25 (illustrated in color).
Sam Francis, exh. cat., Amsterdam, 1968 (illustrated). W. Agee, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, Los Angeles, 1999, p. 34, fig. 33 (illustrated).
