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Lithograph · Paper
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Dapple Dream
Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1973
CHF 110,000 hammer
≈ $137,907≈ £101,837≈ €117,688
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- Medium
- Acrylic · Paintings all acrylic results →As published: “Acrylic and oil on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Category
- Acrylic paintings
- Dimensions
- 60 x 80 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 286: 100 Selected Works of Art - Live Auction (286)
- Date
- September 12, 2025
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 127
- Estimate
- CHF 60,000 – — (≈ $75,222) (≈ £55,547) (≈ €64,194)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (2)
- Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, probably acquired at the exhibition by
- Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions (2)
- Bern 1973, Galerie Kornfeld und Cie, Sam Francis, Ausstellung von Ölbildern und farbigen Zeichnungen von 1969-1973, created in Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York and Bern, cat. no. 12
- Bern 2006, Kunstmuseum, Sam Francis und Bern, fig. p. 104
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: The present work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, under the number SFP73-34 and entered in the online catalogue raisonné of works on canvas under the number SFF.610
As published by Kornfeld.
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