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SAM FRANCIS

The Psychology of Color

Sam Francis (b. San Mateo, California, 1923-1994) remains a celebrated enigma for art historians — not because of some disconnected artistic invention — but rather, because he was an unparalleled bridge maker between ostensibly incongruent movements and a synthesizer of polar philosophies. His works unify the extremes of Abstract Expressionism, combining the Color Field Painting championed by Mark Rothko and the Action Painting of Jackson Pollock, but levitating the mood of his own works far away from those two brooding camps through the use of open space and saturated luminescent color decades ahead of its time.

Sam Francis
Red Again (SFS-138), 1972
Screenprint in colors, on Arches Cover paper
24 1/2 x 30 7/8 inches
Edition of 100
$9,500

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After serving during World War II and spending much of the rest of his young adult life hospitalized with spinal tuberculosis, Francis chose to spend the next decade as an expat, taking inspiration from all he encountered in his far flung travels. Tempering the brashness of American Abstraction, Francis’ work pulls from a heady international stew of Jungian Psychology, Zen Buddhism, the physical European landscape, Mexican textile, and French Modernism. In this way, too, Francis seems more a man of the 21st than the 20th century, and the evidence is on the canvas. Taken in today, thirty years after the artist’s death, Francis’ sense of light and color seem quite at home, easily besting the attention-seizing hues of street art, the everglow of advertisement, and the phosphorescence of our all-consuming #aesthetic digital environment. The defiant joy of his prescient color theory and spirit sets Francis apart from his contemporaries and continues to make his practice a favorite with the staff and patrons of Hamilton-Selway Fine Art Gallery.

  • Sam Francis | Untitled (SFE-014) | 1984

Sam Francis
Untitled (SFE-014), 1984
Aquatint in colors, on Whatman paper
35 x 19 inches
Edition of 29
$11,000

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  • Sam Francis | Untitled (SFE-029) | 1983

Sam Francis
Untitled (SFE-029), 1983
Aquatint in colors, on Rives BFK paper
40 x 17 5/8 inches
Edition of 25
$12,000

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  • Sam Francis | Untitled (SFE-079) | 1991

Sam Francis
Untitled (SFE-079), 1991
Etching in colors, on BFK paper
47 x 28 inches
Edition of 20
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Sam Francis
Untitled (SF-345), 1991
Lithograph in colors, on wove paper
46 5/8 x 30 inches
Edition of 50
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  • Sam Francis | Untitled - Memoire de la Liberté Portfolio (SF-346) | 1991
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SAM FRANCIS
Untitled (SF-346), 1991
From Memoire de la Liberté portfolio
Lithograph in colors, on wove paper
29 7/8 x 46 7/16 inches
Edition of 100
$12,000

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  • Sam Francis | Untitled (SF-356) | 1992

SAM FRANCIS
Untitled (SF-356), 1992
Lithograph in colors, on wove paper
30 x 47 inches
Edition of 50
$12,000

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“Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment”

– Sam Francis

  • Sam Francis | Untitled (SFE-073RC) | 1973

Sam Francis
Untitled (SFE-073RC), 1973
Etching and aquatint in colors, on Fabriano paper
34 3/4 x 39 7/8 inches
Edition of 20
$6,500

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Sam Francis
Untitled (SFE-072), 1989
Monoprint and aquatint in colors, on Rives BFK paper
28 x 29 3/4 inches
Edition of 18
$8,000

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  • Sam Francis | Untitled (SFE-072) | 1989
  • Sam Francis | Untitled (SF-259) | 1980

Sam Francis
Untitled (SF-259), 1980
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper
27 5/8 x 40 inches
Edition of 32
SOLD

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  • Sam Francis | Dark Cup (SF-141)| 1973

Sam Francis
Dark Cup (SF-141), 1973
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper
27 5/8 x 41 1/2 inches
Edition of 38
$5,500

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