Photo © Ketterer Kunst — view this lot on Ketterer Kunst ↗Untitled, 1985
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Untitled #22 - Composition
Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994) · 1959
CHF 24,000 hammer
≈ $28,085≈ £21,532≈ €25,495
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- Medium
- Acrylic · Works on paper all acrylic results →As published: “Acrylic and oil on wove paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Acrylic paintings
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 22.2 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 282: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries</P><P>Live Auction (282)
- Date
- September 12, 2024
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 680
- Estimate
- CHF 20,000 – — (≈ $23,404) (≈ £17,944) (≈ €21,245)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (3)
- Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, inv. no. 4381
- Handschin Gallery, Basel, no. 158
- Private collection Switzerland
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: The present work is registered at the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, under the number SF59-288 and is listed in the online catalogue raisonné of works on paper
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