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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Lot 252

Sam Francis (1923-1994)

Emblem 8 + 1

Closed29 June 2011

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GBP 37,250

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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Emblem 8 + 1
signed 'Sam Francis' (on the reverse)
gouache and tempera on paper
15½ x 11 7/8in. (40.3 x 30cm.)
Executed in 1958-59

Private Collection, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 1 December 1988, lot 685.
Waddington Galleries, Montreal.
Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London.
B.C. Holland, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is registered in the Sam Francis Foundation Archives under number SF59-126 adn will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné of paintings and works on paper, edited by Debra Burchett-Lere, and published by the University of California Press.