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Sam FrancisUntitled, 1990 (SF-343, L.284)1990
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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 (there were also 7 artist proofs, 2 CTP and a BAT), framed in a contemporary white frame.
Catalogue - Lembark, L.284
Regarding Francis’s final lithographs (L.284 and L.285 created in 1989 and printed in 1990), Ruth Fine discusses their relation to his etching work in the 1980s, noting “While continuing to explore the forms, compositions and fields that appeared in the earlier lithographs, through the 1980s Francis pared down in his prints, using fewer forms more freely, imbuing them with a celebratory spirit and a greater sense of intimacy – champagne rather than fireworks. Circles, horseshoes (or snakes), streamers, forms that suggest flowers… these new forms, and the increasing numbers of brilliant colors in the lithographs of this decade, parallel the color explorations that were central to Francis’s etchings during this same period.” (1)
(1) Fine, Ruth E., "Patterns Across the Membrane of the Mind." The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonné 1960 - 1990: Volume I. Edited by Connie W. Lembark, Hudson Hills Press, 1992, New York)
- Creator:Sam Francis (1923–1994, American)
- Creation Year:1990
- Dimensions:Height: 52 in (132.08 cm)Width: 35.5 in (90.17 cm)
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- Condition:generally very good condition with some light scuffs and scratch marks, and scattered rubbing marks top edge and lower bottom.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:Seller: LTFRA0284SC1stDibs: LU2664213418042
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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