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Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
SAM GILLIAM (1933 - ) Scatter Pisces.
Acrylic and flocking on cotton canvas, with canvas collage, 1973. 1016x762x51 mm; 40x30x2 inches, with beveled edges. Signed, titled and dated in ink, upper right verso.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist: private collection, Washington, DC; private collection, New Mexico.
This richly textured painting is a fascinating and scarce example of Sam Gilliam's work between the stained beveled-edge paintings of 1970-72 and the collaged paintings of mid-1970s. Another 1973 example is Rubiyat, 31x73 inches, in the collection of Di and Lou Stovall. Binstock p. 88.
