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x Sam Francis (1923-1994)
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x Sam Francis (1923-1994)

Untitled, 1954
India ink and inkwash on paper
Signed and dated on the back
35 × 27,5 cm
Provenance:
- Galerie Proarta, Zurich
- Private collection, Brussels
- Paris auction, Artcurial, 'Post-War & Contemporain including the Jacques and Madeleine Matarasso collection', 1 April 2014, lot 241
Exhibition:
- Los Angeles, UCLA at the Arm and Hammer Museum of Art, 'Constellations of Light and Dark: Black and White on Paper (1947-1954) by Sam Francis', 14 February - 2 April 1995
- Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 'Sam Francis: The Shadow of Colors: Watercolor und Gouachen, 1948-1984', 30 April -18 June 1995, then Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 3 August - 29 October 1995, then Chemnitz, Germany, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, 7 January - 29 February 1996, illustrated in color in the exhibition catalogue p. 72-73- Zurich, Galerie Proarta, 'Sam Francis: Bilder 1949 bis 1968', 26 May - 23 June 2004, illustrated in color in the exhibition catalogue p. 8
Bibliography: This work is recorded in the online catalogue raisonné by the Sam Francis foundation under no.SF 54-071.

Estimate
8 000 / 12 000 €
Result (Buyer’s fees and taxes included)
9 970 €
Dimensions with frame: 51 x 44 cm
Work examined framed
The work is fixed to the support at the four corners
Buckling of the paper due to the technique
The paper is slightly oxidized
Good intensity of the graphics
Presence of some slight scattered scratches
No trace of restoration
Good overall condition