Double Room

started 1982, published 1984

Sam Francis

Associated Names
Sam Francis

Artist, American, 1923 - 1994

Serge Lozingot

Printer, French, born 1935

James Reid

Printer, American, born 1948

Gemini G.E.L.

Publisher

The image shows irregular black shapes on a white background, resembling shattered glass or fragments scattered across the canvas in an abstract manner. The sharp angular shapes and splatters create a pattern of disorder, evoking a disrupted surface or fractured structure.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on Arches 88 wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 127.4 x 152.3 cm (50 3/16 x 59 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1989.55.22

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lembark 1992, no. L256

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1989 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 1152.

1992

  • Lembark, Connie W. The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1960-1990, vol. 1. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1992, p. 358, no. L256.

2011

  • Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 18.44. http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Inscriptions

lower left in white pencil: NGA; lower right in white pencil: Sam Francis; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: SF81-1035

Markings

embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: © Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Wikidata ID

Q74883234

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