Often associated with the second generation of abstract expressionists whose work emerged in the 1950s francis pioneering style helped to establish the movement on the west coast as well as throughout the world.
Sam francis edge paintings.
The exhibition will comprise nineteen works on paper and two paintings on canvas drawn primarily from francis s 1960s edge paintings a series for which he is widely known.
Exploring his psyche seems to have freed something up within francis that uncapped.
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Sam francis 1923 1994 was an american abstract expressionist whose paintings and prints have received international acclaim.
Agee opines that francis s creative surge in the 1970s owed in part to his commencing jungian analysis in 1971 with psychotherapist dr.
Also included within the group will be examples of works from the 1950s and the 1970s.
Catalogue raisonné of canvas and panel paintings 1946 1994 art historian william c.
The paintings are recognizable by the stains of red blue green and yellow alongside the outer edges of the canvas which would remain bare with only the white gesso exposed.
Make offer american painter francis sam 1923 1994 large oil painting early 1950s sam francis fresh air lithograph 22 x 29 mint condition arte maeght 1972 450 00.
Sam francis is an american postwar painter associated with the abstract expressionist movement.