Sam Francis

Yunan (State III)

1971

67.3 x 49.5 cms (26 1/2 x 19 1/2 ins) Edition of 7

64.8 x 46.3 cms (25 1/2 x 19 ins) Edition of 3 Paper: Rives BFK Proofs: 1 UP (Hand colored) Signed lower left, numbered lower left. Publisher: Joseph Press...

Sam Francis Untitled 1988 Lithograph, Edition of 48 113.3 x 74.3 cms (44.6 x 29.3 ins) SF17882

Sam Francis Untitled 1995 Etching in colours, Edition of 35 53.3 x 45.7 cms (21 x 18 ins) SF17887

A very good impression of this scarce color lithograph on Rives BFK. Signed and numbered 13/50 in pencil by Francis. Published by Editions Daniel Papierski, Paris. From "Papierski Po...

Lithograph, 1969 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated "Color Trial Proof #5" Publisher : Tamarind Lithography Workshop (Los Angeles) Printer : Tamarind Lithography Worksh...

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

Artwork size : 72 × 102 cm Frame size : 92 x 121 x 3 cm Signed and numbered AP (Artist proof) Edition of 40 + Proofs 8 Artists Proof, 6 Trial Proof, 6 State Proof. Sam Francis Archive Number: SF-106A. Literature: Lembark L108. Museum glass anti-reflective. 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...