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Sam Francis

Dark Red Dream

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sam Francis

1923 - 1994


Dark Red Dream

signed and dated 1971 (on the reverse)

acrylic and oil on canvas

127.3 by 203.8 cm. 50⅛ by 80¼ in.

framed: 132.2 by 208.5 cm. 52 by 82⅛ in.

Executed in 1971.


This work is identified with the identification number SFF.553 in the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project.

Galerie Kornfeld & Cie, Bern

Acquired from the above in 1973 by the present owner

Bern, Galerie Kornfeld & Cie, Sam Francis: Werke 1969-1973 (Ausstellung von Ölbildern und farbigen Zeichnungen von 1969–1973, geschaffen in Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York und Bern), October - November 1973, illustrated in colour on the cover; and no. 3, p. 11, illustrated in colour

Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994, Berkley 2011, no. 553, p. 231