Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Untiled (SFM81-106), 1981
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Chinese Opal
Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1970
CHF 4,800 hammer
≈ $5,617≈ £4,306≈ €5,099
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- Medium
- Lithograph · Prints & multiples all lithograph results →As published: “Colour lithograph on wove paper BFK”
- Support
- Paper
- Edition
- 2/15
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Lithographs
- Dimensions
- 89.5 x 63.5 cm, sheet size
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 282: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries</P><P>Live Auction (282)
- Date
- September 12, 2024
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 682
- Estimate
- CHF 6,000 – — (≈ $7,021) (≈ £5,383) (≈ €6,374)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (1)
- The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 913b
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: Lembark/Page L 111
As published by Kornfeld.
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