
Sam Francis
American(June 25, 1923 – 1994)
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Sam Francis: Light, Color, and Pure Freedom
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In the spring of 2023, the Fondation Beyeler in Basel mounted a survey of postwar American abstraction that reminded European audiences why Sam Francis remains one of the most exhilarating painters the twentieth century produced. His canvases glowed from across the room, their edges alive with eruptions of cadmium red and cobalt blue, their centers breathing with luminous white silence. For a generation of younger collectors and artists discovering him fresh, the encounter was something close to revelation. Francis never stops arriving. Samuel Lewis Francis was born in San Mateo, California,… Continue reading
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