ID 964540
Lot 364 | Sam Francis
Estimate value
€ 30 000 – 50 000
1923 San Mateo, CA/USA - 1994 Santa Monica, CA/USA
Title: "To climb, to jump".
Date: Ca. 1970.
Technique: Acrylic on vellum.
Measurement: 105,5 x 75,5cm.
Notation: Signed verso centre: Sam Francis. Additionally dedicated and titled verso along the upper sheet edge: To Kayo to climb. to jump.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.
This work is listed in the Sam Francis Foundation, Pasadena/CA, under the identification number SF70-780 and will be included in the catalogue raisonné of works on paper currently in preparation.
Provenance:
- Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 244th auction, 6.6.2008, lot 36
- Private collection Germany
- Luminous work that poetically unites space, colour and form
- From his most innovative decade, bridging the gap between the central emptiness of his "Edge Series" of the 1960s and the "All-Overness Works" of the 1980s/90s
- Exciting combination of linear and gestural abstraction
- With dedication to his daughter Kayo.
| Artist: | Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) |
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| Auction house category: | Post War |
| Artist: | Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) |
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| Auction house category: | Post War |
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