Picture "Pasadena Box No. I." (1963)
Picture "Pasadena Box No. I." (1963)
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limited, 100 copies | numbered | signed | colour lithograph | framed | size 64 x 53 cm
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Picture "Pasadena Box No. I." (1963)
Colour lithograph, 1963. edition: 100 copies, numbered and signed by hand. Motif size/sheet size 32.5 x 25 cm. Size in frame 64 x 53 cm as shown.
About Sam Francis
1923-1994
Sam Francis is one of the most important representatives of abstract expressionism. His works are on display at the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. In 1956, Time Magazine called him the "Most Attractive American Painter in Paris", and in May 2010, his 1957 work "Middle Blue" was sold for over 6 million dollars at an auction by Christie's.
The German newspaper DIE ZEIT characterised the early works of Sam Francis and his colleagues in post-war American painting as "painted declarations of independence in the direction of Europe". From 1950 onwards, Francis occasionally drew inspiration from the paintings of Claude Monet and Henri Matisse.
After studying painting with Mark Rothko, he moved to Paris for several years, where he met many important artists, such as Jean-Paul Riopelle, who had a lasting influence on Francis' style. It was not until 1962 that he returned to his native California after periods in Bern, Tokyo, and New York.
He became world-famous as an important representative of action painting. He let colours flow into each other on the painting surface in rivulets of varying strength, causing them to mix into blobs of colour. Francis once said about his artistic work: "There is no development in my paintings. There is a rhythm. They are all intense, from beginning to end."
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
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