Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Untitled, 1979
Acrylic · Paper
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Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1990
CHF 23,000 hammer
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- Medium
- Acrylic · Works on paper all acrylic results →As published: “Acrylic on paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed in blue paint
- Category
- Acrylic paintings
- Dimensions
- 48 x 34.5 cm (sheet size); circa 64.4 x 39.6 cm (with the running colour)
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 287: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries - Live Auction (287)
- Date
- September 11, 2025
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 600
- Estimate
- CHF 17,500 (≈ $21,880) (≈ £16,192) (≈ €18,725)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (1)
- Private collection Bern
Exhibitions (2)
- Mendrisio 1997, Museo d'arte, Sam Francis, fig. p. 93
- Bern 2006, Kunstmuseum, Sam Francis und Bern, fig. p. 108
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: The present work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, under the archive number SF89-175 and entered in the online catalogue raisonné of works on paper
As published by Kornfeld.
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