Sam Francis, Facing within

acrylic on canvas
167.3 x 213.6 cm (65 7/8 x 84 1/8 in.)
Painted in 1975.

This work is registered with the Sam Francis Foundation under archive number SFP75-7.

Provenance:
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Byron R. Meyer Collection, San Francisco (acquired in 1979)
Christie’s, New York, 9 May 2012, lot 203
Duhamel Fine Arts, Paris
Private Collection
Phillips, London, 27 June 2016, lot 21
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited:
Zurich, Galerie André Emmerich, American Painting, July - 26 August 1978

Literature:
Sam Francis: Peintures récentes 1976-1978, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1978, n.p. (illustrated)
Sam Francis: Målningar 1976-1978, exh. cat., Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 1978, n.p. (illustrated)
David Lauer, Design Basics, New York, 1979, p. 24 (illustrated)
Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York, 1982, pl. 152, p. 230 (illustrated)
Debra Burchett-Lere, ed., Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings 1946-1994, Berkeley, 2011, no. SFF 662 (illustrated)