LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
162.6 x 114.3
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:
New York, Duveen-Graham Gallery; Lincoln, DeCordova Museum; Denver, Daniels & Fishers Department Store; Greeley, Colorado State College; San Jose, Rosicrucian Egypt Museum; Washington, D.C., Howard University; St. Mary-of-the-Wood College; Tallahassee, Florida State University; New York, Martha Jackson Gallery; Macomb County Community College and Lexington, University of Kentucky, New Talent in the U.S.A., February 1955-October 1957, no. 10.New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, First New York Exhibition of Paintings by Sam Francis, February-March 1956.Lausanne, Muse Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, 1er Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, June-September, 1963 (illustrated in color, p.87).New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Friends Collect: 7th Friends Loan Exhibition, May-June 1964, no. 43 (illustrated, p. 23). Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art; New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Two Decades of American Painting, October 1966-August 1967 (Tokyo and Kyoto: p. 66, illustrated, p. 48; New Delhi: illustrated in color, p. 4). Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Sweden, Malm Konsthall; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa and Rome, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, March 1999-January 2001 (illustrated in color, p. 65, pl. 13, titled as Red 1).
Literature:
B. Rose, American Painting: The 20th Century, Lausanne, 1969, p. 7 (illustrated in color, p. 104). P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1975, p. 143 (illustrated, pl. 71).Y. Riopelle, et al., Jean-Paul Riopelle: Catalogue Raisonn, Tome I: 19391953, Montreal, 1999 (illustrated in color, p. 21). D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonn of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, pp. 62 and 334, fig. 63, cat. no. SFF.135, DVD I (illustrated in color).
Provenance:
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Guy and Marie-Hlne Weill (acquired from the above, May 1958); sale sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2016, lot 29B.Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.