Sam Francis

Untitled (SF59-553)
1959

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Gouache on paper

29 × 22.3 cm / 11 7/16 × 8 3/4 in

verso signed also by a third hand dated and "New York" inscribed

The work has been registered as no. S59-553 for the addendum of the catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, USA

Provenance

The artist´s studio; Galerie Krugier & Cie, Geneva; Private Collection Germany (since ca. 1960); Private Collection Germany (inherited from the previous owner)

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, Sam Francis >SPACE & CONTAINMENT<, Düsseldorf 2021

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Sam Francis >SPACE & CONTAINMENT<", Düsseldorf 2021, S. 8

About Sam Francis

The U.S. American painter Sam Francis is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism following a second generation of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning.