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Sam Francis
I live in a paradise of diabolical blue balls where I pursue this unique mathematic of my imagination.
Samuel Francis, said Sam Francis, was born in San Mateo (United States) in 1923. He studied Botany, then Psychology to Berkeley. Pilot of the US Air Forces during the Second World War, his plane crashed and his spinal column was seriously injured. He spent almost four years, immobilized in a hospital bed. He received a watercolor set during this long convalescence, and began painting what he saw . . .
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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past. These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier
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Métaphysique du...
1986 Poster, original lithograph, realized for the publication of the Portfolio "Poèmes dans le ciel", with Michel Waldberg. Ed. Philosophie des Arts,... Lembark n°273
Metaphysics of void...
1986 Poster, original lithograph, realized for the publication of the Portfolio "Poèmes dans le ciel" (with Michel Waldberg). Ed. Philosophie des Arts,... Lembark n°273
Poèmes dans le...
1986 Original lithograph in 5 colors, signed in pencil by the artist, from the portfolio "Poèmes dans le Ciel". Philosophie des Arts et Francis Delille... Lembark n°L269
Métaphysique du...
1986 Poster, original lithograph, realized for the publication of the Portfolio ?Poèmes dans le ciel? (with Michel Waldberg). Ed. Philosophie des Arts,... Lembark n°268
Métaphysique du...
1986 Poster, original lithograph, realized for the publication of the Portfolio "Poèmes dans le ciel", with Michel Waldberg. Ed. Philosophie des Arts,... Lembark n°273
Pour Yves Michaud
1973-1984/1992 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Ed. Daniel Papierski. Catalogue Raisonné addendum 1991-1994 n°SF 353
Poèmes dans le...
1986 Original lithograph in 6 colors, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the portfolio "Poèmes dans le Ciel". Philosophie des Arts et Francis... Lembark n°L27
Poèmes dans le...
1986 Original lithograph in 5 colors, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the portfolio "Poèmes dans le Ciel". Philosophie des Arts et Francis... Lembark n°L269
From the portfolio...
1992 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the portfolio "Sam Francis" text by Yves Michaud. Papiersky Ed., Paris. S. Francis prints additif n°349 to 55
From the portfolio...
1992 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the portfolio "Sam Francis" text by Yves Michaud. Papiersky Ed., Paris. S. Francis prints additif n°349 to 55
Without title III
1981 Original etching, signed in pencil by the artist, publisher drystamp lower right. Lembark, Volume II n°I. 17 (SFE - 500A)
Metaphysics of void...
1986 Poster, original lithograph, realized for the publication of the Portfolio ?Poèmes dans le ciel? (with Michel Waldberg). Ed. Philosophie des Arts,... Lembark n°273
Metaphysics of void...
1986 Poster, original lithograph, realized for the publication of the Portfolio ?Poèmes dans le ciel? (with Michel Waldberg). Ed. Philosophie des Arts,... Lembark n°268
Deux magots
1960 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist. Ed. Kornfeld et Klipstein, Bern. Lembark n° SF-3
The Pasadena box
1963 Specially designed acrylic box, with 3 drawers, containing a suite of 8 individual original lithographs signed and numbered in pencil by the artist,... Lembark n°L57 to L66
Poèmes dans le ciel
1986 Original lithograph, signed in pencil. Ed. Philosophie des Arts, Paris. Lembark n° 269
Single work 
Composition
1983 Original watercolour and acrylic on paper. On the reverse, stamped with the signature and Estate stamp. Registered in the Sam Francis Archives under the number : S.F. 83-142
Poems in the sky IV
1986 Original lithograph in six colors, signed in pencil. Ed. Francis Delille, Paris. Lembark L-271
Title unknow
Date unknow Original lithograph, unsigned. Unknow
For Yves Michaud
1973 Original lithograph, signed in pencil. Without
Salomon
1973 Original etching, signed in pencil, with the stamp of 2 RC. Lembark Tome II, Réf. I 9
Without Title I
1976 Original liyhograph, signed in pencil. « The Litho Shop Inc. » Publisher, Santa Monica. Lembark Vol I n° L213
Without Title II
1987 Original aquatint and drypoint, signed in pencil. 2RC Publisher, Roma. LembarkVol II n° I-88
Without title
Circa 1990 Original lithograph, signed in pencil. Not indexed yet. Carry to the back reference SF 345
Poems... sky I
1986 Poems in the sky I. Original lithograph, signed in pencil. Philosophie des Arts Publisher, Paris. Lembark n° 268
Poems... sky V
1986 Poems in the sky V. Original lithograph, signed in pencil. Philosophie des Arts Publisher, Paris. Lembark n° 270
Poèmes... ciel II
1986 Poèmes dans le ciel II. Original lithograph, signed in pencil. Philosophie des Arts Publisher, Paris. Lembark n° 269Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
*« Sam Francis », P. Seltz, Ed. Abrams , New York, 1982 *« Intaglio prints, screenprints & posters 1960-1990 », C.W. Lembark, Ed. Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1992
*« The prints of Sam Francis, 1960-1990 », C.W. Lembark, Ed. Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1992
* « Canvas and panel painting 1946-1994 », University of California Press, 2011
Bibliographic track & more
To read about the artist :
- « Sam Francis », 3 volumes, Kornfeld et Klipstein, Berne, 1961 et 1963
- « Sam Francis », Peter Seltz, Abrams ed., New York, 1982
- « S. Francis - Opere dal 1960 al 1983 », B. Carmine, Studio Marconi, 1983
- « Sam Francis : monotypes et peintures », cat. d'expo., Ed. Fond. Maeght, 1983
- « Sam Francis », P. Hulten, Cantz, Stuttgart, 1993
- « S. Francis : The shadow of colors », P. Iden et autres, Ed. Stemmle, 1995
- « Sam Francis, les années parisiennes, 1950-1961 », D. Abadie, Jeu de Paume, 1996
- « Histoire de l’abstraction aux États-Unis », Eric de Chassey, Ed. Gallimard, 2001
- « Abstraction américaine », K. et O. Hübner, Ed. de Saint-Louis, 2013
- « Sam Francis », John Yau, Ed. Bernard Jacobson Ltd, 2014
To read from the artist :
- « Saturated blue », Ed. Lapis Press, 1995
- « Mon art, mon métier, ma magie ... », Yves Michaud, Ed. L'Atelier Contemporain, 2015
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fictionnal stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Mouvements de l'art
- + LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
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