Jun 25, 2020 - Sale 2539

Sale 2539 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SAM FRANCIS
An 8 Set--3 (Variant II).

Color lithograph, 1963. 381x286 mm; 15x11 1/4 inches (sheet), full margins. Signed, inscribed "state number II" and numbered 94/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Joseph Press, Los Angeles, with the blind stamp lower right. Published by the Pasadena Art Museum. From Pasadena Box. A superb impression of this scarce, early lithograph with strong colors.

This lithograph, the third in a series of eight plus a color lithograph hanging scroll and a color lithograph folding screen, all published by the Pasadena Art Museum in an edition of 100, had two variants of 40 (Variant I) and 60 (Variant II) impressions each. Lembark 59.