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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2008 | Christie's | New York | Post War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | Black | |||
May 16, 2001 | Christie's | New York | Post-War Art | 9 | $****** - ****** | Black |
paintings
189.2 x 161.2 cm (74.49 x 63.46 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Sam Francis 55' (on the reverse)
Galerie Rive Droite, Paris. Franz Meyer, Zurich.
His sale; Christie's, New York, 16 May 2001, lot 9.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Paris, Rive Droite, Sam Francis, April 22-May 20, 1955. Paris, Centre Culturel Americain, Sam Francis, Kimber Smith and Shirley Jaffe, June-July 1958. Kunsthalle Bern, Sam Francis, May-July 1960, no. 23. Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Sam Francis, April-May 1963, no. 15. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts and Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, Sam Francis: Retrospective, October 1967-February 1968. Kunsthalle Basel; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Sam Francis, April-November 1968, no. 30. Cases-de-Pêne, Fondation Château de Jau, Des américains à Paris, June-August 1988. Museo d'arte Mendrisio, Sam Francis, May-July 1997, pp. 71 and 95 (illustrated in color). Konsthall Malmo; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Renia Sofia and Rome, Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Sam Francis, January 2000-January 2001.
M. Pleynet, ed., Sam Francis: Histoire et Philosophie de l'Art Collection, Paris, 1992, p. 76 (illustrated).
