Sam Francis

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American | 1923 - 1994

Sam Francis was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1923. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Art Gallery of Hamilton and will be on exhibit at Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin on October 24, 2025. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sotheby's Paris have featured Sam Francis's work in the past.Sam Francis's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 6 USD to 13,557,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 13,557,500 USD for Composition in Blue and Black, sold at Christie's New York in 2022. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 125,011 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 42,974 USD.Sam Francis has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for FAD Magazine in September 2025. The artist died in 1994.

Artist's alternative names: Samuel Lewis Francis

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Featured for Sale

Untitled Red (American Foundation; Sfe-080rc)

By Sam Francis

Christopher-Clark Fine Art

Untitled 鈥� Memoire de la Libert茅 Portfolio (SF-346)

Untitled 鈥� Memoire de la Liberté Portfolio (SF-346)

By Sam Francis

Hamilton Selway Fine Art

Untitled, from Michel Waldberg: Po猫mes dans le ciel (Poems in the Sky

Untitled, from Michel Waldberg: Poèmes dans le ciel (Poems in the Sky ,1986

By Sam Francis

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Middle Blue

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Black and Yellow

By Sam Francis

Paris Summer ,1958

By Sam Francis

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Square and Cross

By Sam Francis

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Zonder titel ,1961

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Square and Cross

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TOWARD DISAPPEARANCE ,1973

By Sam Francis

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UNTITLED (SF-274 ,1977

By Sam Francis

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Dark Plated ,1973

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Current Exhibitions

Martha Jackson in Paris

UB CFA Gallery

Buffalo | New York | USA

04 Sep, 2025 - 17 May, 2026

Ruminations: Tracing the past, Shaping the future

Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver

University Park | Denver | Colorado | USA

25 Sep, 2025 - 23 Nov, 2025

Art pieces: an exhibition on tour, autumn 2025

Galerie Koch

Hannover | Germany

14 Oct, 2025 - 19 Dec, 2025

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Germany's Scharf Collection of French and contemporary art debuts in Berlin

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Coverage

鈥� ..Francis鈥� works from this time are pivotal and encapsulate the concerns of all his future oeuvre : his concern with color, layering, and the utilization of the white picture plane... 鈥�
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Van de Weghe Fine Art

鈥� ..Francis developed a lyrical brushstroke that softened the edges of forms creating an intriguing relationship between figure and ground... 鈥�
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Van de Weghe Fine Art

鈥� ..Francis鈥� judicious yet energetic brushwork activates the white ground with dashes and splatters of rich fluid color... 鈥�
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Van de Weghe Fine Art

鈥� ..Francis said that opposing colours 鈥済ive a real presence to the universe... 鈥�
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

鈥� ..It enabled him to work with the same immediacy as in his paintings... 鈥�
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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

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