Five stone untitled
1959-1968
- Medium
- colour lithograph
- Measurements
- 46.6 × 61.7 cm
- Edition
- printer's proof 1/1; edition of 26
- Accession Number
- P133-1984
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Henry and Dinah Krongold, Founder Benefactors, 1984
© Sam Francis/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Contemporary Art gallery
Level 3, NGV International - About this work
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Sam Francis drew his first lithographs at ULAE (Universal Limited Art Editions) in 1959, while he was sharing a studio in New York with fellow artist Larry Rivers, who introduced him to the print workshop’s founder, Tatyana Grosman. After Francis had drawn on the lithographic stones, they were taken to the workshop on Long Island for proofing, but the prints were not finalised until 1968. Francis was immediately attracted to the surface of the stones but believed the technique was mysterious and best left to the printers: ‘I like to wash the stone, but I don’t know what lithography really is, but perhaps through the stone I may find out who I am and what I am for’.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- black (colour) blue (colour) paint layers red (colour) shape (form attribute) splatter yellow (colour)
- Movements
- Abstract Expressionism