(San Mateo/CA 1923–1994 Santa Monica/CA)
Untitled (SFP67–24), 1967–1968, signed and dated on the reverse, acrylic on canvas, 139.7 x 48.9 cm, framed

This work is registered with the identification number SFP67–24 in the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project

Provenance:
Private Collection (acquired direct from the artist)
Sale Christie’s New York, 4 May 1989, lot 181
Private Collection
Sale Christie’s New York, 19 November 1997, lot 296
Private Collection
Sale Christie’s New York, 1 April 2008, lot 200
European Private Collection
Luigi Proietti Gallery, Perugia
Private Collection (acquired in 2013)
Sale Christie’s Paris, 3 December 2021, lot 7
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Tokyo, Sam Francis, Tokyo Central Bijutsukan Gallery, organized by Minami Gallery, 10–30 May 1968; travelling to Osaka, Gutai Pinacotheca, 2 (or 6)-17 June 1968

Note:
The artwork is in the original strainer fabricated by Lucius Hudson that includes his branding iron logo stamp on one of the center horizontal wood bars

... Like few others, Sam Francis has been able to conjugate the Western world with the orient, the european traditions with the Japanese meditation, the momentum of the action painting with Zen reflexions.
A man happy to travel, always looking for beauty, there where the spirit becomes matter, and matter spirit. Like the rainbow, his opera is a vast arch that impresses on the firmament of our mind the essential forms and colors; a bridge of light, able to connect the most far-off civilizations, the most diverse traditions, the most variegate emotions.

aolo e Carlo Reperto, The Fragrance of the Stars.
Exh. cat. “Sam Francis - Opere Scelte | Selected Works, 1956 - 1991, 2008