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Sam FrancisSam Francis Black Stone lithograph (Sam Francis Prints)1964
1964
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Vintage 1960s Sam Francis Lithograph:
Sam Francis, "Blackstone," 1964.
Lithograph in colors.
16 x 23 inches (Dimensions including frame: 27.5 x 21.5 inches).
Framed in glass. Center fold-line as issued; very good to excellent overall vintage condition. Frame is likewise well preserved.
Published by E. W. Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland in conjunction with the One Cent Life portfolio. From a limited edition of 2000. Unsigned.
Sam Francis:
The painterly abstraction of Sam Francis is most often associated with the American Abstract Expressionist movement, but Francis also spent a great deal of time in Paris and became linked with the parallel movement of Art Informel in Europe. Francis’ most iconic works are characterized by saturated splashes of color that populate the edges of the canvas in order to emphasize the luminous white void in the center. This contrast between the vibrancy of Francis’ color palette and the austere white picture plane demonstrate the artist’s concern with relationships of space, color, and light, as opposed to the psychologically expressive tendencies of contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock.
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- Creator:Sam Francis (1923–1994, American)
- Creation Year:1964
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 23 in (58.42 cm)
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- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU35431873423
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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