Sale: 611 / Day Sale, Dec. 05. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000583
Raumbeispiel
126000583
Sam Francis
Untitled, 1972.
Acrylic on paper
Estimate:
€ 25,000 - 35,000
$ 29,000 - 40,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000583
Sam Francis
Untitled, 1972.
Acrylic on paper
Estimate:
€ 25,000 - 35,000
$ 29,000 - 40,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Sam Francis
1923 - 1994
Untitled. 1972.
Acrylic on paper.
Signed twice in red pen, dated “1972,” and inscribed with the crossed-out date “1974” on the reverse. Inscribed with dimensions, location, date, and registration number of the Sam Francis Foundation in pencil by a hand other than the artist’s. On Japanese paper. 72 x 112 cm (28.3 x 44 in), the full sheet. [KA].
• Sam Francis at his best: gestural expressiveness, contrasting primary colors, and a striking sense of depth.
• A captivating interplay between flowing color and geometric rigor.
• In the year this work was created, the artist’s works were featured in the traveling exhibition “Sam Francis Paintings 1947–1972” at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
• Other works on paper by the artist from the 1970s are held, among others, by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The work is registered with the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, California, under the number “SF72-019” and is listed in the online Catalogue Raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired in 1982, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern).
In the family’s possession ever since.
EXHIBITION: Sam Francis. Ölbilder – Farbige Zeichnungen, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Zurich, April–May 1975, cat. no. 7, with black-and-white illustration (exhibition details added on the reverse by a hand other than the artist’s).
1923 - 1994
Untitled. 1972.
Acrylic on paper.
Signed twice in red pen, dated “1972,” and inscribed with the crossed-out date “1974” on the reverse. Inscribed with dimensions, location, date, and registration number of the Sam Francis Foundation in pencil by a hand other than the artist’s. On Japanese paper. 72 x 112 cm (28.3 x 44 in), the full sheet. [KA].
• Sam Francis at his best: gestural expressiveness, contrasting primary colors, and a striking sense of depth.
• A captivating interplay between flowing color and geometric rigor.
• In the year this work was created, the artist’s works were featured in the traveling exhibition “Sam Francis Paintings 1947–1972” at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
• Other works on paper by the artist from the 1970s are held, among others, by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The work is registered with the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, California, under the number “SF72-019” and is listed in the online Catalogue Raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired in 1982, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern).
In the family’s possession ever since.
EXHIBITION: Sam Francis. Ölbilder – Farbige Zeichnungen, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Zurich, April–May 1975, cat. no. 7, with black-and-white illustration (exhibition details added on the reverse by a hand other than the artist’s).
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