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Sam Francis
Artist's Name: Sam Francis
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1923
Nationality: US
City: Santa Monica

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Sam Francis - Profile

Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) occupies a prominent position in post-war American painting. Although associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement and Clement Greenberg's Post-Painterly Abstraction, unlike many American painters of he time he had direct and prolonged exposure to French painting and to Japanese art which had an individual impact on his work. Francis moved to Paris in 1950 where he met Jean-Paul Riopelle who was to remain an important influence, and study of Monet's Waterlilies had a profound impact on his work. From a very muted palette of greys and whites he returned to the qualities of light and colour producing such works as Big Red 1953. He continues to develop the use of white space and increased the dimensions of his paintings for greater emphasis. During his period in Europe he executed a number of monumental mural paintings. Francis returned to California in 1962 and was then influenced by the West Coast School's preoccupation with mysticism and Eastern philosophy. Blue had become a more dominant feature of his work since 1959 inspired by personal suffering and the great joy of becoming a father for the first time in 1961. This led to combinations of hard colour and more disciplined structures with centrally placed rectangles during the 1970s. Eventually these more rigid structures gave way to looser configurations sometimes of snake-like forms with web-like patterns. Blue, sometimes brilliant, remained an important part of many later works. (Source: Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam)

important exhibitions from Sam Francis

Exhibition Location City Country Date
MONET AND ABSTRACTION Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid ES 23.02.2010
Experiments in Abstraction San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) San Diego US 26.11.2011
Farbe im Fluss - 20 Jahre Weserburg Weserburg - Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen DE 10.09.2011
Sam Francis und Bern Kunstmuseum Bern Bern CH 15.03.2006
Sam Francis Ohara Museum of Art Kurashiki JP 24.05.2005
High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s La Jolla US 28.05.2011
CORSO. WERKE DER SAMMLUNG ESSL IM DIALOG Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus Klosterneuburg AT 28.01.2010
Le grand Geste! Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf DE 10.04.2010
MOCA's First Thirty Years The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA Los Angeles US 15.11.2009

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Galleries representing
Sam Francis:

ACE Gallery
American Contemporary Art Gallery
Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art
Andreas Baumgartl
Armand Bartos Fine Art
Barbara Mathes Gallery
Baukunst Galerie
Boisserée Galerie
Broadbent
Carzaniga Galerie
Fischerplatz Galerie
Galerie Beyeler
Galerie Koch
Galerie Ludorff
Galerie Maulberger
Galerie Ostendorff
Galerie Proarta
Galerie Renée Ziegler
Galerie tazl
Galerie Terminus GmbH
Galerie Thomas
Galerie Thomas Modern
Galerie Wild
Galerie Willy Schoots
Galleri Faurschou
Galleria Blu
Galleria De Foscherari
Galleria Torbandena
Gallerie Repetto
Gallery Delaive
Gary Nader fine art
Guy Pieters Gallery
Guy Pieters Gallery, Paris
Helly Nahmad Gallery
IKON Ltd
James Goodman
JEAN FOURNIER
Jim Kempner Fine Art
Jonathan Boos Gallery
Kukje Gallery
L & M Arts
L&M Arts, Los Angeles
L&M Arts, New York
Manny Silverman Gallery
Max Lang
Moeller Fine Art, Berlin
Reflex New Art Gallery
Richard Gray Gallery
Robert Sandelson
Rosenbaum Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
The Andipa Gallery
Vonderbank Artgalleries - Frankfurt/M
Waddington Galleries

Collections representing
Sam Francis

BnF Site Richelieu
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
Chelsea Art Museum
Collection Lambert en Avignon
Cranbrook Art Museum
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
Deutsche Bank Collection
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Foundation Beyeler
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Fundación Joan Miró
Henie Onstad Art Centre
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
Kunstmuseum Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel - Museum für Gegenwartskunst
les Abattoirs de Toulouse
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
MIT List Visual Arts Center
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Moderna Museet
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
Museum Abteiberg
Museum Folkwang Essen
Museum Jan van der Togt
Museum Morsbroich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio (MOT)
Muzeum Sztuki w Lodz
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of Western Art
Norton Simon Museum
Oakland Museum of California
Palm Springs Art Museum
Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Tate Britain
The Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Dayton Art Institute
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - MMFA
The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA
Wilhelm Hack Museum