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SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

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$ 4 000 000
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09.11.2022 19:00UTC -04:00
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ID 838948
Lot 58 | SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

Composition in Blue and Black

oil on canvas

77 x 51 1/4 in. (195.6 x 130.2 cm.)

Painted in 1955





Provenance

Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery, London.

E.J. Power, London.

Ronald O. Perelman, New York (acquired in 1994).

Gagosian Gallery, New York.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2001.



Literature

R. Melville, "Exhibitions" in Architectural Review, April 1957, vol. 121, no. 723, pp. 269-270 (illustrated).

R. Jacobs, "Jazz ou la peinture investie/ Jazz or the Invested Painting" in Aujourd'hui, July 1958, no. 18 (illustrated).

Time Magazine, 4 August 1958 (illustrated).

I. Penn, "8 New York Painters with International Influence" in Vogue, October 1959, p. 90 (illustrated).

N. Ponente, Modern Painting: Contemporary Trends, New York, 1960, p. 139 (illustrated).

Y. Tono, Sam Francis: The Flesh of Mist, Tokyo, 1964 (illustrated on the front cover).

Contemporary American Painters, Geneva, 1966, p. 4 (illustrated).

Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, exh. cat., Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999, p. 34 (illustrated, fig. 32).

D. Burchett-Lere, ed. Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, p. 69, no. 170 (illustrated, fig. 72; illustrated again on DVD I).



Exhibited

Iserlohn, Haus der Kunst and Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Junge amerikanische Kunst, April-June 1956, no. 23 (illustrated).

Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery; New York, City Art Gallery; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery; Newcastle, Hatton Gallery and Nottingham, University Art Gallery, New Trends in Painting: Some Pictures from a Private Collection: Tachisme and Action Painting, October-May 1957, p. 11, no. 27.

London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, Ltd., The Exploration of Paint: Karel Appel, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Paul Jenkins, Jean-Paul Riopelle, January-February 1957, no. 15 (titled Blue and Black).

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthalle Basel; Milan, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna; Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo; Berlin, Hochschule für Bildende Künste; Amsterdam, Stedelijik Museum and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, The New American Painting, April 1958-January 1959, no. 13 (illustrated).

Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Jackson Pollock et la nouvelle peinture américaine, January-February 1959, no. 12 (illustrated).

New York, Museum of Modern Art and London, Tate Gallery, The New American Painting, February-September 1959, p. 31, no. 12 (illustrated).

London, Tate Gallery, Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954-1964, April-June 1964, pp. 208-209, no. 258 (illustrated).

Düsseldorf, Kunsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunst aus USA nach 1950, October 1977-January 1978, p. 23 (illustrated).

Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February-April 1993, pp. 106-107 (illustrated).

New York, Cohen Gallery, Sam Francis: The Fifties, May-June 1993 (illustrated).

Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Amerikanische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert: Malerei und Plastik 1913-1993, May-December 1993.

Hong Kong, Kwai Fung Hin, Rue de Moulin Vert, May-June 2018.



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