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Details

Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Sam Francis 1960' (on the reverse)
oil on paper
22 x 17 5/8 in. (55.8 x 44.7 cm.)
Executed in 1960.

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Private collection, Los Angeles and Nashville
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery, Sam Francis: 1959-1964, October-December 1987, no. 11 (illustrated).
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Sam Francis, in Memoriam: Selected Works, January-February 1995.
Chicago and New York, Richard Gray Gallery, Sam Francis: Blue Forms, 1959-1961, September 1997-March 1998, pp. 22-23, no. 15 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

The administrative offices for the Sam Francis Foundation (aka Samuel L. Francis Art Museum, Inc., Samuel L. Francis Foundation) has assigned the following artwork with the interim research number of SF60-1000 in connection with the planned publication of Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper.

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