Details

Provenance

Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 1993

Exhibited

Nagoya City Art Museum; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; and Gunma, Hara Museum ARC, Abstraction 5: John Altoon, Sam Francis, Craig Kauffman, John McLaughlin, and Ed Moses , March - August 1990, cat. no. 8, p. 44, illustrated in color Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February - April 1993, pp. 222-23, illustrated in color Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Arts; Osaka, Idemitsu Museum, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection , June 2000 - April 2001, cat. no. 55, p. 55, illustrated in color Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection , August 2002 - October 2003, cat. no. 54, p. 82, illustrated in color, illustrated on the cover

Literature

Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994 , Berkeley 2011, cat. no. SFF.1404, illustrated in color Catalogue Note “Paint used generously and put in the service of color and its energy and power to convey deep feelings is the hallmark, from beginning to end, of Francis’s art.” William C. Agee in: Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994 , Berkeley 2011, pp. 12-13 This work is identified with the interim identification number of SFF.14014 in consideration for the forthcoming addendum to Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings . This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.

Catalog summary

Sam Francis Untitled acrylic on canvas 72 1/8 by 72 1/8 in. 183.2 by 183.2 cm. Executed in 1987. Provenance Yayoi Gallery, Tokyo Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 1993 Exhibited Nagoya City Art Museum; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art; and Gunma, Hara Museum ARC, Abstraction 5: John Altoon, Sam Francis, Craig Kauffman, John McLaughlin, and Ed Moses , March - August 1990, cat. no. 8, p. 44, illustrated in color Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Sam Francis, February - April 1993, pp. 222-23, illustrated in color Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Arts; Osaka, Idemitsu Museum, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection , June 2000 - April 2001, cat. no. 55, p. 55, illustrated in color Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Sam Francis: From the Idemitsu Collection , August 2002 - October 2003, cat. no. 54, p. 82, illustrated in color, illustrated on the cover Literature Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994 , Berkeley 2011, cat. no. SFF.1404, illustrated in color Catalogue Note “Paint used generously and put in the service of color and its energy and power to convey deep feelings is the hallmark, from beginning to end, of Francis’s art.” William C. Agee in: Debra Burchett-Lere, Ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994 , Berkeley 2011, pp. 12-13 This work is identified with the interim identification number of SFF.14014 in consideration for the forthcoming addendum to Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings . This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.