Sam Francis
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Stamp signed verso, executed in 1985. Inscribed Del 2236, SF85-470, S1-33P. Acrylic on paper, 35 x 49,5 cm.
Provenance
Stockholms Auktionsverk, Modern Art and Design, 22 April, 2015, cat. no. 398.
Literature
Listed in "Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project"
More information
"Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment" - Sam Francis
Sam Francis tycks ha sett sin konst och sin egen existens som delar av ett ständigt pågående flöde, vi är alla mitt inne i tidens och rummets centrum. Skapandet är en del i en ständigt pågående tillväxtprocess, en fusion av tidigare erfarenheter som kontinuerligt smälter samman med nya och omformas, där färger och former växer i och ur varandra i en obruten följd, som i en enhetlig jämn våg. Färg var för Sam Francis mer än bara ett medium, den hade ett eget uttrycksfullt liv, den var bärare av känslor, närmast helig.
Claudia Friedrich skriver; "Red, blue, yellow, green, violet - radiantly colored pigments are spontaneously and dynamically applied to paper and canvas. Thin rivulets flow across the ground, forming organic-looking constellations of form, encountering floating areas of color that emerge like luminous islands in a lake of white ground. Seemingly random and intuitive, patterns are woven, synapses established. Sam Francis’ works convey much more to us than they seem to at first glance: the finite delineation of the material through cropping and the dissolution of the separation between inside and outside provide insight into the artistic creative process. "