Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001380
Lot 125001380 
Raumbeispiel
125001380
Sam Francis
Fragment of pure land, 1959.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 250,000
$ 175,500 - 292,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Sam Francis
1923 - 1994
Fragment of pure land. 1959.
Watercolor.
Monogrammed in the lower right and left of the blue field. Signed, dated “Jan. 1959,” and titled on the reverse. On wove paper. 66.5 x 100 cm (26.1 x 39.3 in).
• Sam Francis is one of the most important representatives of Action Painting.
• Born in Tokyo, Japanese art and culture play an essential role in the artist's oeuvre.
• Sam Francis dedicated his work to a more lyrical form of Abstract Expressionism rather than the spontaneous impulse of Action Painting.
The work is registered at the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, California, under the number “SF59-112” and is listed in the online catalogue raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle.
Private collection, Seattle (acquired from the above in 1959).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Art dealer Dr. Ewald Rathke, Frankfurt.
Private collection, southern Germany (since then in family ownership).
EXHIBITION: Sam Francis: Works on Paper, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, April 29–May 30, 1959. Cat. no. 5.
20th Century Paintings from the Collections of the State of Washington, Gallery of Modern Art, Washington / Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1966.
Tribute to Zoe Dusanne, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, March 24–May 8, 1977
Sam Francis: Works on Paper 1948–1959, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, April 24–June 5, 1979.
1923 - 1994
Fragment of pure land. 1959.
Watercolor.
Monogrammed in the lower right and left of the blue field. Signed, dated “Jan. 1959,” and titled on the reverse. On wove paper. 66.5 x 100 cm (26.1 x 39.3 in).
• Sam Francis is one of the most important representatives of Action Painting.
• Born in Tokyo, Japanese art and culture play an essential role in the artist's oeuvre.
• Sam Francis dedicated his work to a more lyrical form of Abstract Expressionism rather than the spontaneous impulse of Action Painting.
The work is registered at the Sam Francis Foundation, Glendale, California, under the number “SF59-112” and is listed in the online catalogue raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle.
Private collection, Seattle (acquired from the above in 1959).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Art dealer Dr. Ewald Rathke, Frankfurt.
Private collection, southern Germany (since then in family ownership).
EXHIBITION: Sam Francis: Works on Paper, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, April 29–May 30, 1959. Cat. no. 5.
20th Century Paintings from the Collections of the State of Washington, Gallery of Modern Art, Washington / Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1966.
Tribute to Zoe Dusanne, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, March 24–May 8, 1977
Sam Francis: Works on Paper 1948–1959, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, April 24–June 5, 1979.
125001380
Sam Francis
Fragment of pure land, 1959.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 250,000
$ 175,500 - 292,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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