Lithograph on paper, pencil signed lower right with circular blind stamp, edition 22/150, in steel frame. From the 1980 Presidential Re-Election Portfolio of Jimmy Carter. Featuring a central diamond with splashes of black, grey and deep blue-green.

SS 24 x 18.25 in.; DOA 30.75 x 25.25 in.

The estate of Dorothy and the late Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff to President Jimmy Carter

"Sam Francis occupies a prominent position in post-war American painting. Although associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement and Clement Greenberg's Post-Painterly Abstraction, unlike many American painters of he time he had direct and prolonged exposure to French painting and to Japanese art which had an individual impact on his work. Blue had become a more dominant feature of his work since 1959 inspired by personal suffering and the great joy of becoming a father for the first time in 1961. This led to combinations of hard colour and more disciplined structures with centrally placed rectangles during the 1970s. Eventually these more rigid structures gave way to looser configurations sometimes of snake-like forms with web-like patterns. Blue, sometimes brilliant, remained an important part of many later works." -Samuel L. Francis Art Museum, Inc.

Small crack to lower right in glass.

$600 - 900