Photo © Ketterer Kunst — view this lot on Ketterer Kunst ↗Untitled, 1985
Acrylic · Paper
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Auction result
Untitled
Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1957
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate CHF 8,000 (≈ $10,002) (≈ £7,402) (≈ €8,560)
Offered at Kornfeld and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Drawing (ink) · Works on paper all drawing results →As published: “Indian ink on wove paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Category
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 22.8 x 16 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 287: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries - Live Auction (287)
- Date
- September 11, 2025
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 595
- Estimate
- CHF 8,000 – — (≈ $10,002) (≈ £7,402) (≈ €8,560)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 28, 2026
Provenance (3)
- The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse , Lugt 913b
- Exhibition
- Bern 2006, Kunstmuseum, Sam Francis und Bern, p. 83
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: The present work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, under the number SF57-307 and entered in the online catalogue raisonné of works on paper under the number SFF5.452
As published by Kornfeld.
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