Born in San Mateo, California in 1923, Sam Francis was a true international artist. During his lifetime he had studios in Paris, Bern, New York, Tokyo and California, and has had numerous exhibitions in major museums around the world. His work holds references to abstract expressionism, Chinese, Japanese and Jungarian philosophy, French impressionism, and his own Bay Area roots.
His works can be found in numerous important collections around the world including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Art Institute of Chicago; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham; Worcester Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Arts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Musée des Beaux-Arts de l’Ontario/Art Gallery of Ontario; Musée des beaux-Arts de Montréal/Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec City; Albertina Kunst Museum Palais, Vienna; Le Monnaie/De Munt, Brussels; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel; Kunstmuseum Basel; Tate, London; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Idemitsu Museum of Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Nagano; Son Eun Arts and Cultural Foundation, Seoul; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Courtesy Alisan Fine Arts

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