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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 62 | $****** - ****** | COMPOSITION | |||
Nov 19, 1996 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art (Part I) | 10 | $****** - ****** | Composition |
paintings
130.8 x 64.3 cm (51.5 x 25.31 in)
oil on canvas
Gimpel Fils Gallery Ltd., London
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (acquired from the above in June 1958)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, May 1966)
Sotheby's, New York, November 19, 1996, Lot 10 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above)
Tokyo, Tokyo Department Store Gallery; Osaka, Kinetsu Department Store Gallery, The Adventure of Today's Painting: The Art of Sam Francis and Toshimitsu Imai, October - November 1957
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.; Manchester, Currier Gallery of Art; Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; Evansville, Evansville Art Museum; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art; Louisville, J. B. Speed Art Museum; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Art Center; Memphis, Brooks Museum of Art; Atlanta, Atlanta Art Association; Saginaw, Saginaw Art Museum; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts; Allentown, Allentown Art Museum; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Paintings from the J. H. Hirshhorn Foundation Collection. A View of the Protean Century, October 1962 - April 1965, cat. no. 29, not illustrated
Vivien Raynor, "New York Exhibitions/In the Galleries: Paintings from the Hirshhorn Collection," Arts Magazine 37, no. 3, December 1962, pp. 45-46 (text)
Edgar J. Driscoll, "The Art World: Contemporary Exhibit at Boston Museum," Boston Morning Globe, December 13, 1964, p. A38
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of the Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, cat. no. 229, illustrated on DVD
