Live Auction 2220Post-War & Contemporary Morning Session
Christie’s roundel
Lot 208 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 

Sam Francis (1923-1994)

Untitled

Closed11 November 2009

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USD 398,500

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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Untitled
signed with initials 'SF' (center right edge)
acrylic and watercolor on paper laid down on canvas
14¼ x 10½ in. (36.1 x 26.6 cm.)
Painted in 1958.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Santa Barbara
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1981, lot 365
Luis Mestre Fine Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Sam Francis Catalogue raisonné edited by Debra Burchett-Lere and published by the University of California Press, Berkeley and is registered with the Sam Francis Foundation as archive number SF58-102.