Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Untitled, 1979
Acrylic · Paper
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Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1955
CHF 37,000 hammer
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- Medium
- Gouache · Works on paper all gouache results →As published: “Gouache and watercolour”
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 43 x 35.4 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 278: Live Auction - Part 1 (278)
- Date
- June 15, 2023
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 618
- Estimate
- CHF 27,500 – — (≈ $30,481) (≈ £24,103) (≈ €28,174)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: The present work is registered at the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, under the number SF55-142 and listed in the online Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper
As published by Kornfeld.
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