Artwork details

Artist

Title

Untitled (SF-239)

Description

Lithograph on Rives BFK paper. Hand signed by Sam Francis lower left. Hand numbered 5/20 lower right. Sheet size: 27.75 x 41.5 inches. Frame size: 35 x 49 inches. Published by The Litho Shop, Inc., Santa Monica, California. Lembark 212.

Artwork is in excellent condition.

About the Artist: Sam Francis was an American artist known for his exuberant large-scale abstract paintings. His practice incorporated elements from Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Impressionism, and Eastern philosophy to create a unique style of painterly abstraction. Influenced by Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still, his work is more closely associated to the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler. Works such as Around the Blues (1957,1963) show the artist’s interest in the formal arrangement of the picture plane as well as his love of flying in airplanes. “Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment,” he once reflected. Born on June 25, 1923 in San Mateo, CA, he briefly served in the US Air Force during World War II but was injured during a test flight. Returning to California, he received his BA and MA from UC Berkeley in botany and psychology before beginning to pursue a career in art. The artist traveled widely during his career, including to Japan where he was influenced by the Gutai group of artists and Paris were he was closely aligned with the Art Informel movement. Francis died on November 4, 1994 in Santa Monica, CA. He was a founding trustee of Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art, today his paintings can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others.

Date

1976

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

27.75 x 41.5 inches

Status

Available

Price

$3,900.00

Sam Francis

Sam Francis produced many prints, his first prints being created in the late 1960s. Most of Sam Francis’ prints were lithography prints. All of Sam Francis prints are original prints as Francis saw printmaking as a distinct medium to create artworks.