Lot No. 757 #


Sam Francis


Sam Francis - Contemporary Art - Part 1

(San Mateo, CA 1923–1994 Santa Monica, CA)
Untitled (Composition 1740), 1994, acrylic, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.8 cm, on the reverse stamped ‘The Sam Francis Estate’, on the central strut of the stretcher numbered SFP 94–66, dated 7.22.94 and directional arrow, framed, (PS)

The work has been registered by the Sam Francis Foundation under the archive no. SFP94–66.

Provenance:
Estate of the Artist (1994)
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen (1996)
Kaare Berntsen, Oslo

Literature:
Debra Burchett-Lere (Hrsg.): Sam Francis, Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994. University of California Press 2011, Nummer SFF. 1740

Exhibited/ Exhibition catalogues:
Agee, William C. Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1990. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999; ill. p. 57, no. 51.
Sam Francis. Mendrisio, Switzerland: Museo d’Arte, 1997; Ausstellungskatalog, ill. p. 20–21.
Sam Francis: Les années parisiennes 1950–1961. Paris: Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1995; ill. p. 39.

Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747

petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de

26.11.2014 - 18:00

Realized price: **
EUR 59,816.-
Estimate:
EUR 45,000.- to EUR 55,000.-

Sam Francis


(San Mateo, CA 1923–1994 Santa Monica, CA)
Untitled (Composition 1740), 1994, acrylic, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.8 cm, on the reverse stamped ‘The Sam Francis Estate’, on the central strut of the stretcher numbered SFP 94–66, dated 7.22.94 and directional arrow, framed, (PS)

The work has been registered by the Sam Francis Foundation under the archive no. SFP94–66.

Provenance:
Estate of the Artist (1994)
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen (1996)
Kaare Berntsen, Oslo

Literature:
Debra Burchett-Lere (Hrsg.): Sam Francis, Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994. University of California Press 2011, Nummer SFF. 1740

Exhibited/ Exhibition catalogues:
Agee, William C. Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1990. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999; ill. p. 57, no. 51.
Sam Francis. Mendrisio, Switzerland: Museo d’Arte, 1997; Ausstellungskatalog, ill. p. 20–21.
Sam Francis: Les années parisiennes 1950–1961. Paris: Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1995; ill. p. 39.

Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747

petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de


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Auction: Contemporary Art - Part 1
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 26.11.2014 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 15.11. - 26.11.2014


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