(San Mateo/CA 1923–1994 Santa Monica/CA)
Untitled (SFP94–70), 1994, dated 7/24/94 on the stretcher, stamped with the Sam Francis Estate logo on the reverse, numbered SFP94–70 on the overlap, acrylic on canvas, 35.6 x 45.7 cm, framed, (PS)

The work has been registered by the Sam Francis Foundation under the archive no. SFP94–70

Provenance:
Estate of the artist, California (1994);
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen (June 1996);
Collection Kaare Berntsen, Oslo

Exhibited/Exhibition catalogues:
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sam Francis: The Last Works, 25 May-17 September 1995, exh. cat. (colour ill.);
Copenhagen, Galleri Faurschou, Sam Francis: The Last Works, 18 March-5 June 1999, exh. cat., pp. 12–13 and 38–39 (b/w ill.)

Literature:
Debra Burchett-Lere, Sam Francis. Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946–1994, Berkeley 2011, no. SFF.1744 (colour ill.)

“Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment”

“A sketch simply has to be spontaneous. That doesn’t apply to a painting, although it might do. I do not produce any preparatory drawings for a certain picture. I don’t prepare the painting, I prepare myself. […]”
Sam Francis (quoted by Pontus Hulten, Das Innere der Engel, in:
Sam Francis, The Shadow of Colors, Ed. Ingrid Mössinger, Edition Stemmle, 1995, p. 18)