Red Again

 

Sam Francis

  1923 - 1994 (biography)

1972  

11 color screenprint 

24 3/4 x 31" image and paper 

pencil signed, lower right 

65 of 100  

Copyright chop in lower right; pencil editioned; Gemini stamp on verso with pencil numbering "SF72-5021" 

Lembark S9; SFS-138 - Francis Inventory number; Gemini SF72-5021 

ivory Arches Cover 

published 

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (chop, lower right). 

20692 

$4,000.00 

This early screenprint by Sam Francis was done at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles. It is Francis' 9th screenprint, all (with the exception of his first) done in 1972 by the artist and Jeffrey Wasserman, assisted by Robert Knisel, all under the supervision of Master Printer Ken Tyler at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles between August and October.

'Red Again' required 11 screens with 11 colors to realize the image, which was printed in an edition of 75 and 25 various proofs. The screens were hand-drawn by the artist using tusche.

Tyler and Francis were able to re-create the expressive, gestural imagery that Francis had used with his lithography but using silk screens, which had tended to be used for flat imagery with the ink fragilely sitting on the paper surface. This experimentation helped bring screenprinting to a new level for the Abstract Expressionists.

An impression of 'Red Again' was exhibited in Bonn in March/April of 1974 at the Galerie Pudelko.