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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Artist: Sam Francis
Untitled (SFE-081) - 1992 - American Abstract Expressionism
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
SAM FRANCIS 1923-1994
San Mateo, California 1923 – 1994 Santa Monica (American)
Title: Untitled (SFE-081), 1992
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint in Colours on ...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled (SF-311), 1979
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
SAM FRANCIS 1923-1994
San Mateo, California 1923 – 1994 Santa Monica (American)
Title: Untitled (SF-311), 1979
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on...
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1995
Etching in colours, Edition of 35
53.3 x 45.7 cms (21 x 18 ins)
SF17887
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
King Corpse, 1986
By Sam Francis
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1986, Sam Francis King Corpse, 1986 is a unique color trial proof screenprint on Arches cover paper hand signed by Sam Francis (San Mateo, 1923- Santa Monica, 1994) in the...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Untitled (SFE-081)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Aquatint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 27, 61.6 x 44.5 cm.
Category
1990s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Untitled SFE-003 (Blue, Red and Yellow) - American Abstract Expressionism
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
SAM FRANCIS 1923-1994
San Mateo, California 1923 – 1994 Santa Monica (American)
Title: Untitled SFE-003 (Blue, Red and Yellow), 1982
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Inscribed E...
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Plate size: 36.8 x 27. 3 cms (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 ins)
Image size: 15.2 x 9.5 cms (6 x 3 3/4 ins)
Edition of 20
Category
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Damp
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
66 x 94 cms (26 x 37 ins)
Edition of 20
Rives BFK paper
Proofs: I BAT, 4 AP, 7 CTP, 9 XP
Signed lower left; numbered lower left; publisher's chop lower left.
Published by Tama...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled. SF-353 from “Papierski Portfolio”
By Sam Francis
Located in Malmo, SE
Untitled. SF-353 from “Papierski Portfolio” 1992.
Signed by the artist.
Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm
Frame size : 75x97x4 cm
Museum glass anti-reflective.
Signed AP (artist proof)
Sam Francis Archive Number: SF-353
Publisher: The Litho Shop, Santa Monica.
Free shipment worldwide.
Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled from the portfolio “Poems dans le ciel”
By Sam Francis
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Poems dans le ciel (eng. Poems in the sky). Original lithograph, 1986. Edition of 100 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Samuel Lewis Francis was an American artist, we...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Color Explosion - Original lithograph (Maeght 1983)
By Sam Francis
Located in Paris, FR
Sam FRANCIS
Color Explosion (c. 1983)
Original lithograph
Unsigned as issued
On heavy paper 89.5 x 54 cm (c. 36 x 21 inch)
Original lithographic exhibition poster for the artist Ret...
Category
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled Abstract Expressionist lithograph, from Carnegie Museum (155 Lembark)
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
Untitled (from Fresh Air School), 1972
Lithograph on wove paper, for the Carnegie Museum of Art
15 × 22 inches
Limited Edition of 6,000 (unsigned edition; there is a sepa...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sam Francis -- Mehrfarbige Spirale
By Sam Francis
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Sam Francis
Mehrfarbige Spirale, 1970
Signed in pencil
Edition A.P. (the edition was 40)
Image size: 60.4 x 45.3 cm
Sheet size: 85 x 68 cm
Published by The Litho Shop, Inc., Californ...
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Deluxe Hand Signed & Numbered 25/30 Cat: Lembark 155 Carnegie Museum lithograph
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
Untitled Abstract Expressionist lithograph (Hand Signed from the Carnegie Museum Deluxe Edition), 1972
Catalogue Raisonné: 155, Lembark
15 × 22 inches
Hand signed and nu...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pencil, Lithograph
Untitled SF-221 (variation), Abstract Lithograph by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bright lithograph by Sam Francis is an unsigned test print in an alternate color. It was printed by the Litho Shop in Santa Monica, California.
Untitled SF-221 (variation)
Sam ...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Dark Plated, Abstract Lithograph by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
A signed and numbered abstract print by Sam Francis. This bold composition is made up entirely of two tones, black and brown, on wh...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, c.1974-1976 (SF129s)
By Sam Francis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (SF129s) dating to c.1974-1976 is a mixed media, silkscreen monotype on handmade paper, 30 x 22.5 inches sheet size and estate-stamped verso (copy of Francis estate certific...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype, Screen
King Corpse, Abstract Expressionist Screenprint by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Original hand-signed and numbered silkscreen on Arches paper by American Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis.
King Corpse
Sam Francis, American (1923–1994)
Date: 1986
Screenprint on...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Untitled from the portfolio “Poems dans le ciel”
By Sam Francis
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Poems dans le ciel (eng. Poems in the sky). Original lithograph, 1986. Edition of 100 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Samuel Lewis Francis was an American artist, we...
Category
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled SF-221, Abstract Lithograph by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
A signed and numbered abstract print by Sam Francis. This bold composition is made up entirely of black on white and lithographed o...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Coldest Stone (Lembark, 15), S/N, from the estate of Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
The Coldest Stone (Lembark, 15), 1960
Lithograph on BFK Rives wove paper with deckled edges
25 × 36 inches
Signed and numbered 8/65 by Sam Francis on the front in graphite pencil on the front
Unframed
Marvelous 1960 Sam Francis lithograph...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Pencil
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 1975
Lithograph
29 1/4 x 22 1/4”
Edition of 125
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Trietto 3 (SFE-076 RC)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Aquatint in colours, 1991, on Fabriano paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 66, printed by Valter & Eleonora Rossi at Vigna Antoniniana Stamperia d'Arte, Rome, publi...
Category
1990s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Limited Signed Deluxe Monograph with Slipcase (signed & numbered by Sam Francis)
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
SAM FRANCIS: Limited Signed Deluxe Edition (Hand signed and numbered by Sam Francis), 1982
Deluxe limited edition hardback monograph with cloth boards, held in special slipcase of ts...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Silk, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Board
Sam Francis McGovern '72 Poster (Hand signed by Sam Francis) Abstract lithograph
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis McGovern '72 Poster (Hand signed by Sam Francis), 1972
Photo offset poster (hand signed by Sam Francis)
Signed in blue ink on the front by Sam Francis with Sam Francis co...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Untitled (SF-346)
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Waterleaf white wove paper. One of 25 Roman numeral impressions, aside from the Arabic numeral edition of 100. Signed and numbered ...
Category
1990s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled, from the Deluxe (Signed) 1984 Olympic Committee portfolio
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
Untitled Abstract Expressionist print for the 1984 Olympics, 1982
Offset Lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment paper, hand signed with COA from publisher for Olympic Co...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Untitled (SF-297)
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Rives. Signed and numbered 4/50 in pencil by Francis. Printed and published by The Litho Shop, Inc., Santa Monica, with the blind s...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Abstract expressionist lithograph s/n (Lembark, 16) from the Estate of Wolf Kahn
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
SAM FRANCIS
Affiche Moderna Museet Stockholm (Catalogue Raisonne L-16, p.66), 1960
Color lithograph on Rives BFK Paper with deckled edges
Pencil signed lower right of center; numbered 39/75 lower left of center
Published by Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern; printed by Emil Matthieu at Emil Matthieu Atelier, Zurich
(Catalogue Raisonne L-16, p.66)
37 1/4 × 27 inches
Provenance: Estate of Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason
Unframed
Editions of this iconic Sam Francis work have been exhibited in museums throughout the world over the past half center; many remain in the permanent collection of major museum and institutions .
In addition to this pencil signed and numbered lithograph, there was, separately a poster edition of 500 (unsigned) published by Moderna Museet featuring the same image on different paper.
About Sam Francis
B. 1923, SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA; D. 1994, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
Samuel Lewis Francis was born on June 25, 1923, in San Mateo, California. He began painting in 1944 after being diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis, resulting from a U.S. Army Air Corps accident. In 1947 he studied privately with painter David Park, and soon gave up his intended medical studies, earning a BA in 1949 and an MA in 1950 at the University of California, Berkeley.
He experimented with the dominant and emerging styles of the late 1940s, particularly Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, eventually developing a personal style of abstraction focused on dripping, cell-like forms, an allover instability, and sensitivity to color and light, as in Opposites (1950). In 1950 Francis moved to Paris and attended the Atelier Fernand Léger, where he was exposed to the work of Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, which reinvigorated his interest in light and vibrant color, visible in his 1953 painting Big Red. Producing such work led to his association with Art Informel, although Francis never fully associated with any movement. A visit to Japan in 1957 coincided with an opening up of expanses of white space in much of his work, and his subsequent move to a larger studio in Paris resulted in the production of large-scale paintings and mural commissions, including a 1959 painting...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Pencil
The Upper Red, 1963 (SF-48)
By Sam Francis
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Upper Red (SF-48) from 1963 is a lithograph on paper, image size 19.75 x 25.75 inches, signed 'Sam Francis' and annotated lower right, framed in a contemporary, light wood frame....
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1989
Aquatint, Edition of 20
44.5 x 32.4 cms (17 1/2 x 12 3/4 ins)
22.9 x 15.2 cms (9 x 6 ins)
SF15235
Category
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Smoke Sulphur SFE-183
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, 1973
Signed in pencil, numbered 16/30
Published by The Litho Shop, Inc. California with their blindstamp
Very good condition
Sam Francis w...
Category
1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, 1990 (SF-343, L.284)
By Sam Francis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (SF-343) from 1990 is a lithograph on paper, image size 46.5 x 30 inches, signed 'Sam Francis' lower left and annotated lower right. From the edition of 60, numbered 17/50 (...
Category
20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Untitled, Artist Proof
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
This aquatint has implied movement shown by a blues and red palette.
Sam Francis was an American artist known for his exuberant large-scale abstract paintings. His practice incorpor...
Category
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Untitled, from Deluxe Lt Edition of the 1 Cent Life Portfolio HAND SIGNED TWICE
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
Untitled Abstract Expressionist from the Deluxe [signed] edition of the 1 Cent Life Portfolio (hand signed twice, #85/100, from the Estate of Robert Indiana), 1964
Lithograph on wove paper (Hand signed twice by Sam Francis)
Pencil signed twice by Sam Francis on the front; numbered 85/100 on the portfolio colophon (copy of the colophon page affixed to the verso of frame)
Acquired from original, complete 1 Cent Life Portfolio, # 85/100 (Artists & Collaborators) from the Estate and Collection of Robert Indiana
Frame included
About 1 Cent Life
"1 Cent Life" began as a simple idea by artist Walasse Ting in 1962, developed during talks he had with his friend the artist Sam Francis. Ting wanted to combine international artists and different styles into a single book, linking them together in one collective spirit alongside his own art and poetry. It was a landmark publication from 1964, and now a somewhat rare collectible portfolio based on the impressive artwork it contains. It was a revolutionary tract for a collective aesthetic; an assembled vision of Pop and European abstraction, featuring flat hard-edged and splatter painting; biomorphic art, splashing florescent colors and monochromes all meeting up in a single loud and dynamic package. "1 Cent Life" is among the most beautifully conceived and artistic book-works of the 1960s, unlike anything published before or after. "1 Cent Life" is a large elephant-folio unbound book containing 62 lithographs made by 28 European and American artists with 62 letterpress poems by Ting and set in multi-colored inks. The lithography was realized and printed in Paris by Maurice Beaudet and the typography carried out in handset letterpress by George Girard. The book was published by E. W. Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland in 1964, and edited by artist Sam Francis. In addition to the original printing of 1900 unsigned copies, there was a numbered portfolio edition of 100 signed copies. These two Sam Francis signed...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Pencil
Pink Venus Kiki
By Sam Francis
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Sam Francis
Title: Pink Venus Kiki
Portfolio: 1 Cent Life
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1964
Edition Size: 2000
Frame Size: 20 5/8" x 28 3/4"
Sheet Size:...
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sam Francis Abstract Expression 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Poster
By Sam Francis
Located in Plainview, NY
An original abstract expression 1984 Olympic poster by Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994). Featuring a red background with geometrical abstract des...
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20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Untitled (Lembark, L-240 (SF-259))
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
Untitled (Lembark, L-240 (SF-259)), 1980
Colored lithograph on BFK Rives paper with deckled edges
Pencil signed and numbered 21/32 by Sam Francis on the front
27 1/2 × 40...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Pencil
Untitled, 1981, Sam Francis Monotype
By Sam Francis
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Untitled, 1981, unique embossed monotype print on handmade paper. Created at the Institute of Experimental Printmaking by lauded American artist, Sam Francis (1923-1994). The Sam Fra...
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Ink, Oil, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pigment, Monotype
Abstract Lithograph by Sam Francis, 1976
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sam Francis, American (1923 - 1994)
Title: Untitled (SF-208)
Year: 1976
Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 25/30
Size: 33 x 25 in. (83.82...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
A Sail
By Sam Francis
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Sam Francis A Sail, 1969 is an exciting expression of color and movement formatted in a landscape orientation. Emblematic of two of the artist’s most recognized approaches, A Sail, 1...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Tokyo Mon Amour - Lithograph by Sam Francis - 1963
By Sam Francis
Located in Roma, IT
Tokyo Mon Amour is an artwork realized by Sam Francis (1923 San Mateo, California) in 1963.
Color lithograph. Hand signed and numbered 4/25.
80x47 cm not framed.
Printed by Joe ...
Category
1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Self Portrait (SF-050), Abstract Lithograph by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Self Portrait (SF-050)
Sam Francis, American (1923–1994)
Date: 1975
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 16/20
Size: 41 x 29.5 in. (104.14 x 74.93 cm)
Printer: The Li...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 1975
Lithograph
29 1/4 x 22 1/4”
Edition of 125
Unique Color Trial Proof
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (SF-341) - Sam Francis - American Abstract Expressionism - 1989
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
SAM FRANCIS 1923-1994
San Mateo, California 1923 – 1994 Santa Monica (American)
Title: Untitled (SF-341), 1989
Technique: Original Hand Signed, Inscribed and Numbered Lithograph in...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 1979
Lithograph
22 1/8 x 18 1/8”
Edition of 100
Unique color trial proof
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sam Francis Splatter Lithograph
By Sam Francis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sam Francis: 1923-1994. Well listed American abstract painter. He has auction results for paintings over 11.5 million dollars, and for prints over $100,000. This fantastic example of his splatter art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sam Francis Round Breast of Jane Mansfield
By Sam Francis
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Sam Francis
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Round Breast of Jayne Mansfield
Portfolio: 1964 1¢ Life
Year: 1964
Edition: 2000
Framed Size: 21 1/4" x 16 1/4"
Sheet Size: 16 1/8" x 11...
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Circa 1950 Original lithograph of Sam Francis - Abstract - Signed by the artist
By Sam Francis
Located in PARIS, FR
Very nice original lithograph of Sam Francis.
Samuel Lewis Francis (1923-1994) known as Sam Francis, is an American painter, famous for his non-figurative painting.
He developed in...
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1950s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Vegitable II
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
Sam Francis
Vegetable ll , 1971
Hand-signed
Lithograph in colors
35 x 24 in
14/15
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Damp, Lithograph, USA 1969, Signed and numbered by artist
By Sam Francis
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Sam Francis (1923-1994) is one of the most distinctive and collected 20th-century abstract artists.
After serving in the air force in WWII, Francis returned to his native Californi...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Lembark L172)
By Sam Francis
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
1974 Lithograph in colors on Rives BFK paper
22.25 x 39 inches (55.9 x 99.1 cm) (sheet)
Ed. 5/100 (there were also 9 artist's proofs).
Signed and numbered in pencil along lower ed...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
No title
By Sam Francis
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1971
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Trial proof signed and annotated "Variant I" on the back
Printer : Litho Shop (Santa Monica)
Catalog : SF 109
LCD5003
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
For the Blue Sons of the Air
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1990, on wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 150, published by American Indian Heritage Foundation, Falls Church, Virginia, 135.6 x 81....
Category
1990s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
SFE-080RC
By Sam Francis
Located in Malmo, SE
Untitled. SFE-080RC.
Artwork size : 56 x 76 cm.
Frame size : 75 x 97 x 4 cm
Museum glass anti-reflective.
Signed and numbered 46/75 ex.
Sam Francis Archive Number : SF-353.
Free shipment worldwide.
Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings. The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work. Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia. He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s first...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Untitled, 1963
By Sam Francis
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created circa 1963, this color lithograph on Rives BFK paper is hand signed by Sam Francis in pencil in the lower right and inscribed “Special Proof Marlene” in pencil in the lower m...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sea Sail (SF-92)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1969, on BFK Rives paper, signed and inscribed ‘AP’ in pencil, an artists’s proof aside from the standard edition of 20, printed and published by Tamarind Lith...
Category
1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Sail I
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
101.6 x 71.1 cms (40 x 28 ins)
Edition of 40
Signed lower left; numbered lower centre, printer's chop lower right.
Publisher: Hollander's Workshop, New ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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