x Sam Francis (1923-1994) Untitled, 1954 India ink and ink wash on paper Signed and dated on the back 35 × 27.5 cm Provenance : - Galerie Proarta, Zurich - Private collection, Brussels - Sale Paris, Artcurial, 'Post-War & Contemporain dont la collection Jacques et Madeleine Matarasso', 1 April 2014, lot 241 Exhibition: - Los Angeles, UCLA at the Arm and Hammer Museum of Art, 'Constellations of Light and Dark: Black and White on Paper (1947-1954) by Sam Francis', 14 February - 2 April 1995 - Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 'Sam Francis : The Shadow of Colors : Aquarelle und Gouachen, 1948-1984', 30 April -18 June 1995, then Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 3 August - 29 October 1995, then Chemnitz, Germany, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, 7 January - 29 February 1996, reproduced in colour in the exhibition catalogue p. 72-73- Zurich, Galerie Proarta, 'Sam Francis: Bilder 1949 bis 1968', 26 May - 23 June 2004, reproduced in colour in the exhibition catalogue p. 8 Bibliography: This work is listed in the Sam Francis Foundation online catalogue raisonné under no. SF 54-071.