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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 213 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | BLUE ARC |
paintings
226.7 x 308.3 cm (89.25 x 121.38 in)
acrylic on canvas
Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 1993
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Stockholm, Lilkevalchs Konsthall; Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Sam Francis: Art in Progress, November 1977 - December 1979
Vancouver, Ace Gallery, Sam Francis: Paintings and Works on Paper, February - March 1979
Bern, Galerie Kornfeld, Sam Francis: ausstellung, ölbilder und farbige zeichnungen von 1976 - 1983, March - April 1983
Nagoya City Art Museum; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; Gunma, Hara Museum Arc, Abstraction 5: John Altoon, Sam Francis, Craig Kaufman, and Ed Moses, March - August 1990, p. 41, illustrated in color
Toulouse-Labège, Centre Régional d'art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, Sam Francis, November 1991 - February 1992, pp. 21-23, illustrated in color
Tokuyama City of Art and History, Sam Francis and Sengai: From the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, April - June 1997, cat. no. 16, pp. 40-41, illustrated in color
Milan, Studio Marconi, Sam Francis: Opere dal 1960 al 1983, May - June 2015
Jan Butterfield, "Sam Francis," Flash Art, No. 106, February - March 1982, p. 23, illustrated
Peter Selz et. al., Sam Francis, New York 1982, pl. 159, p. 236, illustrated
Michel Waldberg, Sam Francis: Metaphysics of the Void, Toronto 1987, pp. 134-135, illustrated in color
Yves Michaud and Marcelin Pleynet, Sam Francis, Paris 1992, p. 154, illustrated in color
Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley 2011, cat. no. SFF.684, illustrated in color on the DVD
Genpei Akasegawa, Story of Personal Art Museums, Tokyo 2011, illustrated in color
acrylic on canvas
89 1/4 by 121 3/8 in. 226.7 by 308.3 cm.
Executed in 1977.
