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Sam Francis

Floating Blue

1958–59

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  • Artist Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994)
  • Title Floating Blue
  • Date 1958–59
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 48 x 54 1/4 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, 1972
  • Object number WU 4497

Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/12/1998 - 04/05/1998

Abstract Expressionism: American Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/17/1997 - 04/06/1997

Modernism at Midstream: From Europe to America and Back Again
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/04/1983 - 11/06/1983

1972
Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, St. Louis

Inscription [on verso at UL of stretcher, orange rectangular label with black print:] 32 e 69 st [dot] new york 21 / MARTHA JACKSON GALLERY / No [o is superscripted with a dot under it] 3807 / [printed:] ARTIST [written in black ballpoint pen:] FRANCIS - SAM / [printed:] TITLE [written in pencil:] FLOATING BLUE / [printed:] MEDIUM [written in black ballpoint pen:] O/ C [printed:] SIZE [written in black ballpoint pen:] 48 X 54 / [printed:] DATE [written in black ballpoint pen:] 1959 [printed:] PRICE [written in pencil:] 2000 - / [printed:] SOLD TO [empty space]

Inscription [on verso at UR of canvas, written (signed?) in pencil in script:] Sam Francis [underlined] / 59

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