This exuberant circular composition, Sam Francis Untitled, 1994, captures the artist’s unmistakable ability to translate energy, motion, and color into a dynamic visual experience. Radiating across the surface in vivid bursts of crimson, golden yellow, cobalt blue, and emerald green, the composition unfolds through sweeping gestures, splattered pigment, and layered translucent forms. Francis orchestrates these elements with remarkable sensitivity, creating a vibrant interplay between bold painterly marks and delicate fields of color.

The circular format heightens the sense of movement within the work, allowing the eye to travel fluidly across the surface as colors collide, dissolve, and re-emerge in new forms. Throughout the composition, Francis balances spontaneous splashes with rhythmic shapes and floating forms, creating a visual language that feels both improvisational and carefully composed. The luminous yellow ground acts almost like light itself, energizing the surrounding marks and giving the entire image a radiant, atmospheric quality.

Francis’s works are held in the permanent collections of many of the world’s leading museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His prints remain especially sought after for their ability to convey the vitality and scale of his paintings within highly collectible editions.

Numbered from the limited edition of just 50 impressions, this striking lithograph is a powerful example of Sam Francis’s celebrated visual language—an electrifying composition where color, gesture, and movement converge in a work that feels both spontaneous and timeless.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Sam Francis Untitled, 1994 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonné and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, Ongoing, illustrated in color (online).
2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Sam Francis Untitled, 1994 is presented in a complementary moulding and optical grade Plexiglas.