LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

72.01 in. (182.90 cm.) (height) by 95.98 in. (243.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'Sam Francis Middle Blue 1957' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Tokyo, Toyoko (Hyakkaten) Department Store Gallery and Osaka, Kintetsu Department Store Gallery, Sam Francis, October-November 1957. San Francisco Museum of Art; Pasadena Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum, Paintings by Sam Francis, Wall Hedrick and Fred Martin: Sculpture by Wally Hedrick and Manuel Neri, February-July 1959, no. 12. New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Sam Francis, April 1963. New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Sam Francis: Paintings 1952-1970 from the Gallery's Collection, November 1970, n.p. (illustrated on the cover). Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas Museum of Art and Oakland Museum of Art, Sam Francis Paintings 1947-1972, September 1972-August 1973, p. 69, pl. 40 (illustrated in color). College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery; New York, Finch College Museum of Art and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, June 1973-February 1974, p. 20, no. 24 (illustrated). Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Martha Jackson Collection at the Walker Art Center, February-March 1975. Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, Selected Works from the Gallery Collection, October-November 1991. New York, Associated American Artists and Oshawa, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Martha Jackson Gallery 1953-1979, September 1994-June 1995, p. 11 (illustrated in color). Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Sam Francis: les anneées parisiennes 1950-1961, December 1995-February 1996, pp. 118-119 (illustrated in color). New York, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Important Modern Masters, April-May 1996, pp. 13-14 (illustrated in color). Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Houston, Menil Collection; Malmö Konsthall; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Renia Sofia and Rome, Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, March 1999-January 2001, p. 86, pl. 33 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

Arts Magazine, November 1970, p. 61 (illustrated). Christian Science Monitor, 21 December 1970 (illustrated). L. Picard, "Sam Francis," Das Kunstwerk 16, October 1962, no. 32 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Martha Jackson, New York. David Anderson, Buffalo. C&M Arts, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner.