Name: SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
Brand: Untitled
Price: 20000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed, inscribed, stamped with the Estate of Sam Francis stamp, numbered and dated 'SF63-083 Sam Francis 1963 Los Angeles' (on the reverse)
gouache on paper
27 ½ x 40 ⅞ in. (69.9 x 103.8 cm.)
Painted in 1963.

This work is identified with the interim identification number of SF63-083 in consideration for the forthcoming Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Unique Works on Paper. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.

The Sam Francis Estate, Venice, California
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

Bern, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, Sam Francis: Werke 1962-1966, September-October 1966, p. 33, no. 33 (illustrated).
Bonn, Galerie Pudelko, Sam Francis, February-April 1993.

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Lot Essay

Painted in 1963, the present lot expands the horizons of Francis’s infamous Blue Balls series. Regarding these blue orbs, he wrote: “I live in a paradise of hellish blue balls—merely floating, everything floats, everything floats.” These orbs appear to float and flow around the perimeter of the picture plane, their fluid movements reflecting their organic disk-like shapes. The sharp contour of the orbs as well as the relative absence of splatter and drip found in much of his other works is an expansion of Francis’s meditation on painting, emphasizing space that is marked, and that which is not.