Details SAM FRANCIS (1923-1994)Untitledgouache on paper laid down on Masonite30 3/4 x 23 in. (78.2 x 58.4 cm.)Executed in 1953. Provenance Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Sweeney, New York, 1968Private collection, by descent from the aboveMitchell-Innes & Nash, New YorkPrivate collection, New York, 2017Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature P. Plagens, A Sam Francis Retrospective in Houston: He has been, all along, five years ahead of his time, Artforum, vol. 6, no. 5, January 1968, p. 41 (illustrated).P. Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1975, p. 145, pl. 73 (illustrated).P. Selz et. al., Sam Francis, New York, 1982, p. 157, pl. 79 (illustrated).M. Waldberg, Sam Francis: Metaphysics of the Void, Toronto, 1987, p. 17 (illustrated).J.F. Lyotard, Sam Francis: Lesson of Darkness. . . Like the Paintings of a Blind Man, Venice, 1993, n.p. (illustrated).D. Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, digital, ongoing, no. SFF5.200 (illustrated). Exhibited Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, Sam Francis: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 1967-February 1968, p. 26, no. 43.Kunsthalle Basel; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Sam Francis, April 1968-November 1968, no. 77 (Basel); no. 45 (Karlsruhe); no. 60 (Amsterdam, illustrated). Conditions of sale