Live Auction 2558Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Lot 127

Sam Francis (1923-1994)

Blue, Yellow, Red

Closed9 May 2012

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USD 266,500

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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Blue, Yellow, Red
oil on canvas
16¼ x 18 in. (41.2 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1959-1960.

David Anderson, New York, 1960
David Anderson Gallery, New York
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Private collection
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 30 June 1994, lot 31
Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"Color is born of the interpretation of light and dark... Color is a firing of the eye... Color is a pattern that plays across the membrane of the mind... Color is a series of harmonies everywhere in the universe being divine whole numbers lasting forever adrift in time... Color is light on fire... " (S. Francis "Aphorisms" as quoted in P. Hulten, Sam Francis, exh. cat., Germany, 1993, pp. 37-38).