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SF64-045, Sam Francis, Acrylic, American Abstraction, Postwar, Work on paper
1964
Acrylic on paper
73 x 56.5 cm
94 x 75 cm / 37 x 29.5 in. (with frame)
Signed and dated on the reverse : 1964
Listed in the archives of Sam Francis Estate under no.SF64045.
Provenance :
Estate of Sam Francis, California
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private Collection, Geneva
Exhibition :
Sam Francis : The Edge, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, April 29th - August 31th, 2000.
Sam Francis, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, 2003.
In 1960s, Sam Francis went through a period of intense traveling, after eight years in Paris, he went from one workshop to another between Japan, Mexico, United States and Paris. All this traveling will have an impact in his artistic research. His visit to Japan coincided with an opening of white space in much of Sam Francis's work, as it is the case in this artwork. Marked by Zen Buddhism, he appropriated notions of empty and full from Asian ink painting. Sam Francis have privileged the technique of painting on paper, first used for its convenience during a long hospitalization, the paper then remained a recurrent medium in his pictorial work. Furthermore, the paper represents a constant need for this traveling artist, a "research in intimacy and intensity rather than size".
Sam Francis (1923-1994) was an American painter, often associated with the works of leading Abstract Expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Helen Frankenthaler, and was also involved in Europe's similar movement called Art Informel, which he got involved with as he lived in Paris in the 1950s.
- Creator:Sam Francis (1923–1994, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Geneva, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU150227878112
Sam Francis
Sam Francis was an American artist known for his exuberantly colorful, large-scale abstract paintings. His practice incorporated elements from Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Impressionism and Eastern philosophy to create a unique style of painterly abstraction.
Influenced by Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still, Francis is more closely associated to the work of Helen Frankenthaler, as he was more interested in the formal arrangement of the picture plane than the expressivity of the individual artist. “Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment,” Francis once reflected.
Born on June 25, 1923 in San Mateo, California, Francis briefly served in the US Air Force during World War II but was injured during a test flight. Returning to California, he received his BA and MA from UC Berkeley in botany and psychology before beginning to pursue a career in art. The artist traveled widely during his career, and he was closely aligned with the Art Informel movement while living abroad in Paris during the 1950s.
Francis died on November 4, 1994 in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 71. He was a founding trustee of Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and his paintings can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others.
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