Photo © PIASA — view this lot on PIASA ↗Sans titre I, Rome 1987
Aquatint
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Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1988
CHF 7,500 hammer
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- Medium
- Etching · Prints & multiples all etching results →As published: “Colour etching”
- Edition
- 7/20
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil lower right
- Category
- Etchings
- Dimensions
- 40.6 x 147.3 cm, platemark; 77.5 x 157 cm, sheet size
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 278: Live Auction - Part 1 (278)
- Date
- June 15, 2023
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 622
- Estimate
- CHF 6,000 – — (≈ $6,650) (≈ £5,259) (≈ €6,147)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: Lembark/Page I 96
As published by Kornfeld.
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