Sam Francis (American, 1923 - 1994)

Sam Francis

American | 1923 - 1994

Sam Francis was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1923. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Uffizi Galleries, The Uffizi have featured Sam Francis's work in the past.Sam Francis's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 6 USD to 13,557,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 13,557,500 USD for Composition in Blue and Black, sold at Christie's New York in 2022. Sam Francis has been featured in articles for The Art Newspaper, ArtDaily and ArtsJournal. The most recent article is Acquisitions of the Month: March 2024 written for Apollo in April 2024. The artist died in 1994.

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Trietto 4 - Sam Francis

Trietto 4

By Sam Francis
Untitled - Sam Francis

Untitled

By Sam Francis

Current Exhibitions

8 Golden Square

Bernard Jacobson Gallery
St. James's | London | UK
Mar 15,2024 - May 04,2024

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Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Pasadena | Los Angeles | California | USA
Mar 03,2024 - May 18,2024

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Helwaser Gallery
Upper East Side | New York | USA
Feb 12,2024 - Jun 30,2024

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Acquisitions of the Month: March 2024
Swiss Dealer Eberhard Kornfeld Bequeathed Kirchner, Giacometti Works to Bern Kunstmuseum
Kunstmuseum Bern bequeathed five major paintings by Eberhard W. Kornfeld

Coverage

..Francis’ works from this time are pivotal and encapsulate the concerns of all his future oeuvre : his concern with color, layering, and the utilization of the white picture plane...

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Van de Weghe Fine Art

..Francis developed a lyrical brushstroke that softened the edges of forms creating an intriguing relationship between figure and ground...

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Van de Weghe Fine Art

..Francis’ judicious yet energetic brushwork activates the white ground with dashes and splatters of rich fluid color...

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Van de Weghe Fine Art

..Francis said that opposing colours “give a real presence to the universe...

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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

..It enabled him to work with the same immediacy as in his paintings...

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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

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