Sam Francis (1923-1994)

Sam Francis (1923-1994)

细节
Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled
watercolor and gouache on paper
17 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (44.7 x 35.8 cm.)
Executed in 1955.
来源
Hans and Alice de Jong, Hengelo/Ascona, acquired from the artist, 1956
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 November 2006, lot 178
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf,
Acquired from the above by the present owner
展览
Arnheim, Netherlands, Gemeentemuseum and Lyngby, Denmark, Sophienholm, oog in oog met hans en alice de jong, June 1970-January 1971, no. 16.
New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Americans in Paris: Abstract Paintings in the Fifties, July-September 2007 (illustrated in color).

拍品专文

The administrative offices for the Sam Francis Foundation (aka Samuel L. Francis Art Museum, Inc., Samuel L. Francis Foundation) has assigned the following artwork with the interim research number of SF55-030 in connection with the planned publication of Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper.

"My work isn't illustrative of anything. My aim is to get to the essence, not to reproduce an outer image. I want to reach something deeper, something more primeval. "
Sam Francis