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Lot 532 The Tuttleman Collection
Sam Francis (1923-1994)
China Nine Puffs
Closed18 May 2017
Price Realised
USD 511,500
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Specialist note
This work is included in the Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, published by the University of California Berkeley Press (UC Press: 2011) under the No. SFF.635 and is also registered in the archives of the Sam Francis Foundation with the No. SFP74-5. This information is subject to change as scholarship continues by the Sam Francis Foundation.
“His bare feet prancing about over a white canvas, this angel creates a garden of flowers in prism-like colours, as if portraying peerless visions of paradise. Yet the flower garden is criss-crossed with a lattice of fine lines, like a spider’s web trembling with fear, like veins of blood. Works such as these may be easier to understand if we think of them as poems executed in paint, and Sam Francis as a poet of art.”
Mamoru Yonekura, quoted in The Recent Works of Sam Francis, Ogawa Art Foundation, 1990, p. 5-6.
“His bare feet prancing about over a white canvas, this angel creates a garden of flowers in prism-like colours, as if portraying peerless visions of paradise. Yet the flower garden is criss-crossed with a lattice of fine lines, like a spider’s web trembling with fear, like veins of blood. Works such as these may be easier to understand if we think of them as poems executed in paint, and Sam Francis as a poet of art.”
Mamoru Yonekura, quoted in The Recent Works of Sam Francis, Ogawa Art Foundation, 1990, p. 5-6.