SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
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ID 1508362
Lot 555 | SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
Estimate value
250000USD $ 250 000 – 350 000
One Ocean, One Cup
signed and dated 'Sam Francis 1974' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
86 ½ x 110 ¼ in. (218.7 × 280.5 cm.)
Painted in 1974.
Provenance
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1974
Literature
P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1975, p. 216, pl. 144 (illustrated).
P. Selz, et. al., Sam Francis, New York, 1982, p. 228, pl. 150 (illustrated).
Contemporary Great Masters: Sam Francis, Tokyo, 1994, pp. 56 and 111, pl. 48 (illustrated).
D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994, Berkeley, 2011, DVD I, no. SFF.633 (illustrated).
Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura City, 2022, p. 89 (illustrated).
D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, digital, ongoing, no. SFF.633 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Sam Francis, April 1974, n.p. (illustrated).
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Dedication Kusuo Shimizu and Minami Gallery, March 1985, p. 97 (illustrated).
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Post-War American Art from the Collection of the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, May-June 1991.
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, In Search of Landscape, December 1998-March 1999.
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Great Masters of 20th-Century Art, August-September 2000, n.p.
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Water Level of Image: Transformation and Reflection of Narcissus, June-September 2004, n.p.
| Artist: | Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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