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Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
195.6 x 130.2
Description:
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Markings:
signed for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction
Exhibited:
Iserlohn, Haus der Kunst and Kunstmuseum Dsseldorf, Junge amerikanische Kunst, April-June 1956, no. 23 (illustrated).Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery; New York, City Art Gallery; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery; Newcastle, Hatton Gallery and Nottingham, University Art Gallery, New Trends in Painting: Some Pictures from a Private Collection: Tachisme and Action Painting, October-May 1957, p. 11, no. 27.London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, Ltd., The Exploration of Paint: Karel Appel, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Paul Jenkins, Jean-Paul Riopelle, January-February 1957, no. 15 (titled Blue and Black).New York, Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthalle Basel; Milan, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna; Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporneo; Berlin, Hochschule fr Bildende Knste; Amsterdam, Stedelijik Museum and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, The New American Painting, April 1958-January 1959, no. 13 (illustrated).Paris, Muse national dart moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Jackson Pollock et la nouvelle peinture amricaine, January-February 1959, no. 12 (illustrated).New York, Museum of Modern Art and London, Tate Gallery, The New American Painting, February-September 1959, p. 31, no. 12 (illustrated). London, Tate Gallery, Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954-1964, April-June 1964, pp. 208-209, no. 258 (illustrated).Dsseldorf, Kunsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunst aus USA nach 1950, October 1977-January 1978, p. 23 (illustrated).Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February-April 1993, pp. 106-107 (illustrated).New York, Cohen Gallery, Sam Francis: The Fifties, May-June 1993 (illustrated).Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Amerikanische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert: Malerei und Plastik 1913-1993, May-December 1993. Hong Kong, Kwai Fung Hin, Rue de Moulin Vert, May-June 2018.
Literature:
R. Melville, Exhibitions" in Architectural Review
Provenance:
Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery, London.E.J. Power, London.Ronald O. Perelman, New York (acquired in 1994).Gagosian Gallery, New York.Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2001.