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SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

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ID 839008
Lot 103 | SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

Red No. 1

oil on canvas

64 x 45 in. (162.6 x 114.3 cm.)

Painted in 1953





Provenance

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.

Guy and Marie-Hélène Weill (acquired from the above, May 1958); sale sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2016, lot 29B.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

B. Rose, American Painting: The 20th Century, Lausanne, 1969, p. 7 (illustrated in color, p. 104).

P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1975, p. 143 (illustrated, pl. 71).

Y. Riopelle, et al., Jean-Paul Riopelle: Catalogue Raisonné, Tome I: 1939–1953, Montreal, 1999 (illustrated in color, p. 21).

D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, pp. 62 and 334, fig. 63, cat. no. SFF.135, DVD I (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

New York, Duveen-Graham Gallery; Lincoln, DeCordova Museum; Denver, Daniels & Fishers Department Store; Greeley, Colorado State College; San Jose, Rosicrucian Egypt Museum; Washington, D.C., Howard University; St. Mary-of-the-Wood College; Tallahassee, Florida State University; New York, Martha Jackson Gallery; Macomb County Community College and Lexington, University of Kentucky, New Talent in the U.S.A., February 1955-October 1957, no. 10.

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, First New York Exhibition of Paintings by Sam Francis, February-March 1956.

Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, 1er Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, June-September, 1963 (illustrated in color, p.87).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect: 7th Friends Loan Exhibition, May-June 1964, no. 43 (illustrated, p. 23).

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art; New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Two Decades of American Painting, October 1966-August 1967 (Tokyo and Kyoto: p. 66, illustrated, p. 48; New Delhi: illustrated in color, p. 4).

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Sweden, Malmö Konsthall; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Rome, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, March 1999-January 2001 (illustrated in color, p. 65, pl. 13, titled as Red 1).



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