Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Untiled (SFM81-106), 1981
Print (other) · Paper
Bonhams · Sep 17, 2026$11,520 ≈ £8,612 ≈ €10,034Sign up free to see price
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Mirror
Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1965
CHF 80,000 hammer
≈ $100,296≈ £74,063≈ €85,591
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “Oil on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 101.6 x 91.4 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 286: 100 Selected Works of Art - Live Auction (286)
- Date
- September 12, 2025
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 126
- Estimate
- CHF 70,000 – — (≈ $87,759) (≈ £64,805) (≈ €74,892)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (2)
- Estate of the artist, by inheritance to
- private collection Japan
Literature (5)
- Catalogue raisonné: The present work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, under the number SFP65-14 and entered in the online catalogue raisonné of works on canvas under the number SFF.432
- Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1975, p. 192
- Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1982, p. 204
- Exhibition
- New York 1967, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Sam Francis, Oil Paintings and coloured Drawings from 1962 to 1966, cat. no. 22
As published by Kornfeld.
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Provenance trail: auction history of this work
Offered twice between 2024 and 2025 · sold 1 · bought in / unsold 1
Sep 13, 2024 · Kornfeld
Auction 281: 125 Selected Works of Art</P><P>Live Auction, lot 135
Bought in / unsold · est. CHF 110,000
As catalogued
Sam Francis, “Mirror”, 1965
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 91.4 cm
Provenance: Estate of the artist, by inheritance to; Private collection Japan
Sep 12, 2025 · Kornfeld this result
Auction 286: 100 Selected Works of Art - Live Auction, lot 126
Sold CHF 80,000Sign up to see · est. CHF 70,000
As catalogued
Sam Francis, “Mirror”, 1965
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 91.4 cm
Provenance: Estate of the artist, by inheritance to; private collection Japan
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