Vendu pour : 169 250 $

PROVENANCE
Solomon & Co. Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sold sale of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s New York, September 10, 2008, lot 242
Schillay Fine Art Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, June 2009

Sam Francis was one of the twentieth century’s most profound Abstract Expressionists. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 with a degree in art, Francis moved to Paris, where he would be named by Time magazine in 1956 as “the hottest American painter in Paris these days.” While in Paris, Francis developed close friendships with fellow American artist Joan Mitchell and the Canadian artist Jean Paul Riopelle. In the 1970s to 1980s, Francis was working with a lush and vibrant palette and painting with elongated forms, drips and splatters. This is a classic gestural painting by Francis, full of energy and intensity. The multitude of colours, diverse textures and varying placements of paint are typical of his 1980s acrylic works on paper.

This work has been given the interim identification number of SF88-308 in consideration for the forthcoming Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.

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