FRANCIS, SAM
1923 San Mateo, CA/USA–1994 Santa Monica, CA/USA

Title: Hurrah for the Red, White, and Blue.
Date: 1961.
Technique: Color lithography on BFK RIVES (watermark).
Depiction Size: 50 x 65.5 cm.
Notation: Japanese seal stamp. As well as numbered.
Publisher: Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern (publisher).
Number: 268/400.


Literature:
- Lembark, Connie W.: The prints of Sam Francis, A catalogue raisonné 1960-1990, Vol. I, New York 1992, Cat. rais. no. L-17 (SF-17).


Condition: Minimal occasional creases. Verso remains of an old mounting. Otherwise in very good condition.

Sam Francis celebrates the colors of the US flag with dynamic explosions of color and generous white space - an iconic work of Abstract Expressionism.