LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

80.12 in. (203.50 cm.) (height) by 65.87 in. (167.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Nina Dausset, Sam Francis: Peintures, February 1952.Kunsthalle Bern; Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Sam Francis, May-October 1960, no. 3.Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume, Art e Contemplazione, July-October 1961.Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Art Gallery of Toronto, Post Painterly Abstraction, April-December 1964, no. 31.Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sam Francis: A Retrospective Exhibition, October-November 1967, p. 29, no. 1 (illustrated).San Francisco Museum of Art, Museum Collections: Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture, May–July 1970. Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Oakland Museum, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947 - 1972, September 1972-August 1973, p. 43, no. 12, (illustrated).San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Collectors, Collecting, Collection: American Abstract Art Since 1945, April–June 1977.Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February-April 1993, pp. 74-75 (illustrated in color).Laguna Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York, National Academy of Design, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, January 1996-March 1997, p. 74, fig. 3.12 (illustrated in color).Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Houston, Menil Collection, Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, March 1999-January 2000, pp. 51 and 58, pl. 6 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1975, pp. 138-139 and 255, pl. 66 (illustrated in color).P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1982, pp. 34 and 150-151, pl. 72 (illustrated in color). Contemporary Great Masters, exh. cat., Tokyo, 1994, pl. 8 (illustrated). Sam Francis: Les années parisiennes 1950–1961, exh. cat., Paris:, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1995, p. 180 (illustrated in color). D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, p. 36, fig. 39, cat. no. 89, DVD I (illustrated in color)

Provenance:

Mrs. Wellington S. Henderson, Hillsborough, 1968Her sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 2007, lot 53Acquired at the above sale by the present owner