Sam Francis (1923-1994)
拍品 532 The Tuttleman Collection

Sam Francis (1923-1994)

China Nine Puffs

已結束2017年5月18日

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Sam Francis (1923-1994)
China Nine Puffs
signed and dated 'Sam Francis 1974' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
86 5/8 x 110 1/4 in. (220 x 280 cm.)
Painted in 1974.

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985

專家說明

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.