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Josef ALBERS
Roger BEZOMBES
Maris BISHOFS
Patrick CAULFIELD
CORNEILLE
Jean Michel FOLON
Sam FRANCIS
Jef FRIBOULET
Sir Terry FROST
Marinus FUIT
Yoshisuke FUNASAKA
Rodney GLADWELL
George GUEST
David HOCKNEY
Joichi HOSHI
Patrick HUGHES
Wako ITO
Jasper JOHNS
Allen JONES
Clifton KARHU
Jeremy KING
Henri MATISSE
Rokusho MIZUFUNE
Yoshitoshi MORI
Robert MOTHERWELL
Claes OLDENBERG
Christopher PENNY
John PIPER
Robert RAUSCHENBERG
Ceri RICHARDS
James ROSENQUIST
Toko SHINODA
Joe TILSON
Mark TOBEY
Feliks TOPOLSKI
Julian TREVELYAN
Henri VAN NESS
Joan Pere VILLEDECANS
Koichi YAKOMOTO
Anthony BENJAMIN
Okiie HASHIMOTO
Keith HARING
Tetsuro SAWADA
Bruno LETI
SAM FRANCIS USA 1923 - 1994
Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of 20, he found himself consumed by the power of art. He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he made frequent excursions to European cities and journeys to South America and Asia. moving from place to place, primarily the USA & Japan, up until his death in 1994. Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire. Alongside Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Francis was an artist who demonstrated a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre. The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that characterise the musicality of his paintings. Francis' work was Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis and demonstrates a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking. He spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. Today he is widely represented in major museums of modern and contemporary art.
Sam FRANCIS USA
Untitled from Portfolio 9
Lithograph AP 1967
Fred Genis printmaker
432 x 559 image size
A$3,500
Sam FRANCIS USA
Untitled from Portfolio 9
Lithograph AP 1967
Fred Genis printmaker
432 x 559 image size
A$3,5501
Sam FRANCIS USA
Untitled 2
Lithograph AP 1967
Fred Genis printmaker
432 x 559 image size
A$3,500
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