Untitled

Price realised GBP 162,500

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GBP 60,000 – GBP 80,000

Closed: 28 Jun 2018

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Sam Francis (1923-1994)

Untitled

Price realised GBP 162,500

Closed: 28 Jun 2018

Price realised GBP 162,500

Closed: 28 Jun 2018

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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed, stamped with the Estate of Sam Francis stamp and dated 'Sam Francis 1952' (on the reverse)
watercolour on paper
22 x 29 ¾in. (55.9 x 75.6cm.)
Executed in 1952

Lawrence Rubin / Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

New York, Lawrence Rubin / Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, Sam Francis 'Paintings and Works on Paper from the 1950s', 1999, no. 1 (illustrated in colour on the cover and p. 7).

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF52-052 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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Lot Essay

‘ Colour is light on fire, each colour is the result of burning, for each substance burns with a particular colour. The processes talked about in alchemy are parallel to the processes in painting. For that reason I am fascinated with alchemy. But my work is not just my painting -- it is something else. Painting holds me in check, so to speak, or keeps me from flying off in other directions. It is a way of being anchored in the world.’
– Sam Francis

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