Sam Francis

  MONTPELLIER - En collaboration avec le Musée d’arts de Nantes , le musée Fabre proposera à Montpellier, du 6 août au 31 octobre 2021, une ambitieuse exposition consacrée à un ensemble d’artistes américains qui, installés en France, ont contribué à la redéfinition de l’art abstrait sur le continent européen. Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, alors que la Ville lumière perd progressivement sa prééminence de capitale mondiale de l’art occidental au profit de New York,  plusieurs centaines d’artistes, musiciens... [Lire la suite]

Lot 8. Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Muhammad Ali, inscribed ‘I certify that this is an original painting by Andy Warhol completed by him in 1978 Frederick Hughes’ (on the overlap); signed by Muhammed Ali (on the reverse), acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 40 x 40in. (101.6 x 101.6cm.). Estimate GBP 3,000,000 - GBP 5,000,000 (USD 3,936,000 - USD 6,560,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. LONDON.- Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place on 12 February 2020,... [Lire la suite]

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (detail), 1749/50. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray. CHICAGO, IL.- Highlighting one of the most important gifts in the history of the Prints and Drawings department, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection brings together more than 100 works from celebrated art dealer Richard Gray and art historian Mary L. Gray. Assembled over nearly 50 years, the Gray Collection encapsulates a long and... [Lire la suite]

  London Art Week holds its third Winter edition from Sunday 1 to Friday 6 December in locations across Mayfair and St James’s. During the week, some 35 leading specialist galleries and the major auction houses will stage special exhibitions and talks. Open to art collectors, curators and the public the exhibitions span 5,000 years of art, from antiquity to the twentieth century, with a core focus on Old Masters and pre-contemporary art. Among the highlights is a lunchtime talk at the National Gallery on Monday 2 December, the... [Lire la suite]

Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994), Untitled, 1955. Ink on paper, 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.5 cm). Norton Simon Museum, Gift of the Sam Francis Foundation. PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Drawing, Dreaming and Desire: Works on Paper by Sam Francis, an exhibition that features the artist’s drawings of erotica and the female nude, many on view for the first time. While Francis is renowned for abstract, atmospheric and vigorously colored paintings on a grand scale, these intimate drawings—meditations made... [Lire la suite]

Ad Reinhardt (American, 1913-1967), Untitled (Blue-Purple Painting), 1952. Oil on canvas,36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61.0 cm). Bears inscription. Includes artist's original painted strip frame. Estimate: $1,000,000 - $1,500,000. DALLAS, TX.- Untitled (Blue-Purple Painting), 1952, Ad Reinhardt's minimalist masterwork, is expected to bring $1 million as part of a 370-lot Modern & Contemporary Art Signature Auction May 31 at Heritage . Works by giants ranging from Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg... [Lire la suite]

Sam Francis (1923-1994), SANS TITRE - 1970. Photo courtesy ARTCURIAL - BRIEST-POULAIN-F.TAJAN Acrylique sur papier. Signé, daté, situé et dédicacé au dos March 5 1970, For E... for holding out 25 years and for the next 2500, Sam, Sam Francis, 1970, Bern; 106 x 75,50 cm (41,34 x 29,45 in.). Estimation : 12 000€ / 15 000€ Commentaire : SANS TITRE; ACRYLIC ON PAPER; SIGNED, DATED, LOCATED AND DEDIDCATED ON THE REVERSE ARTCURIAL - BRIEST-POULAIN-F.TAJAN, PARIS, FRANCE. 1er Avril 2014. www.artcurial.fr

Sam Francis, Untitled, 1980. Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 142 in. The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection. Artwork © Sam Francis Foundation, California/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Pasadena, CA – The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA), is proud to present Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, the first major museum exhibition of Francis’s work in over a decade. Known as one of the twentieth century's most influential painters of light and color, Sam Francis maintained... [Lire la suite]

Sam Francis (1923-1994), Untitled. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2013 stamped with the Sam Francis Estate stamp and facsimile signature stamp (on the reverse); acrylic on canvas; 48 x 12in. (122 x 30.5cm.). Painted in 1986. Estimate £40,000 - £60,000 Provenance: The Estate of Sam Francis, California.Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam.Galerie Guy Pieters, Saint Paul de Vence.Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007. Literature: D. Burchett-Lere (ed.), Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of... [Lire la suite]

Clyfford Still, 1955-d, Ph-387, 1955. Oil on canvas, 117 1/2 x 111 inches (298.4 x 281.9 cm). Photo: Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Masters of the Gesture”, an exhibition of major Abstract Expressionist paintings, drawings and sculptures, including works by John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, David Smith and Clyfford Still. The exhibition includes loans from key private and public... [Lire la suite]