SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

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01.03.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 351 | SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)

Untitled

signed ‘Sam Francis’ (on the reverse)

acrylic on paper

8 3/4 x 16 1/8in. (22.1 x 40.8cm.)

Executed in 1973





Provenance

Ruth Schaffner Collection, Santa Barbara (acquired from the artist in 1976).

Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York 1984, lot 338.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

D. Burchett-Lere (ed.), Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, 2022, no. SF73-079.



Exhibited

London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Sam Francis, 2014.



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