Picture "Untitled (L 282/SF 341)" (1989), framed
Picture "Untitled (L 282/SF 341)" (1989), framed
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offset print on cardboard | framed | glazed | size 147 x 102 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Untitled (L 282/SF 341)" (1989), framed
High-quality edition in five-colour offset process on hammered, and similar to hand-made paper, cardboard. Motif size 126 x 80 cm (h/w). Sheet size 138 x 93 cm (h/w). Framed in a silver-coloured solid wood frame with a black inner bevel, glazed. Size 147 x 102 cm (h/w). Samuel L. Francis Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009.
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About Sam Francis
1923-1994
Sam Francis is one of the most important representatives of abstract expressionism. His works are on display at the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. In 1956, Time Magazine called him the "Most Attractive American Painter in Paris", and in May 2010, his 1957 work "Middle Blue" was sold for over 6 million dollars at an auction by Christie's.
The German newspaper DIE ZEIT characterised the early works of Sam Francis and his colleagues in post-war American painting as "painted declarations of independence in the direction of Europe". From 1950 onwards, Francis occasionally drew inspiration from the paintings of Claude Monet and Henri Matisse.
After studying painting with Mark Rothko, he moved to Paris for several years, where he met many important artists, such as Jean-Paul Riopelle, who had a lasting influence on Francis' style. It was not until 1962 that he returned to his native California after periods in Bern, Tokyo, and New York.
He became world-famous as an important representative of action painting. He let colours flow into each other on the painting surface in rivulets of varying strength, causing them to mix into blobs of colour. Francis once said about his artistic work: "There is no development in my paintings. There is a rhythm. They are all intense, from beginning to end."
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.