Selz, Peter. SAM FRANCIS. Essays on his prints by Susan Einstein and Jan Butterfield. 296 pp., 217 illustrations, including 82 color plates. Folio, cloth. Revised edition, Abrams, 1982.
Freitag 3113.

Buffalo. Albright Knox. SAM FRANCIS Paintings 1947 - 1972. 152 pp. catalogue with short essays, reference data and more than 100 color and b&w illustrations. Large 4to, wraps. 1972.
Freitag 3110.

Los Angeles County Art Museum. SAM FRANCIS. 44 page catalogue, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. 1980.

Los Angeles. Nicholas Wilder Gallery. SAM FRANCIS: Paintings. Unpaginated with 7 color, tipped in plates. Wide 4to, wraps. 1978.

Berkeley. University Art Museum. SAM FRANCIS. 21 pp. text by James Johnson Sweeny and 26 b&w reproductions of works from the exhibition. 4to, wraps. 1967.

Hannover. Kestner Gesellschaft. SAM FRANCIS. 60 pp. exhibition catalogue with brief text, and numerous colour and b&w illustrations. 8vo, wraps. 1963.

Santa Monica. James Corcoran Gallery. SAM FRANCIS: Edge Paintings. Text by Walter Hopps; unpaginated, 11 color plates. Small, oblong 4to, cloth. 1991.

Iden, Peter et al. SAM FRANCIS: The Shadow of Colors. 120 pp., 44 color illustrations. 4to, cloth. Edition Stemmle, 1995.
Presents an overview of West Coast artist Sam Francis's smaller works on paper, featuring 44 of his gouaches and watercolors created between 1947 and 1977. The title of the book refers to a poem by the artist describing the effects these paintings evoke.

Zakian, Michael. SAM FRANCIS: Elements and Archetypes. 217 pp., with roughly 125 color illustrations, including 4 fold-out plates, and 6 b&w photographs. Large 4to, wraps. Madrid, Fundacion Caja, in association with Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997.
This exhibition catalogue concentrates on the period in the 1970's when Sam Francis was most interested in creating archetypal images that defy a definite verbal explanation.

Agee, William C. et al.. SAM FRANCIS Paintings 1947-1990. 164 pp., 86 colour plates and numerous colour and b&w figures. 4to, cloth. Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998.

Rome, Galleria il Gabbiano. SAM FRANCIS: Mostra personale/one man show. Text by Lorenza Trucchi and Fiamma Arditi; 55 pp., 26 color plates and 10 b&w photographs. 4to, wraps. 1998.
Text in English and Italian.

Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery. SAM FRANCIS 1964-1979. Brief text by Gerald Nordland; 40 pp., 28 color and 1 b&w plates. 4to, wraps. 1993.

Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery. SAM FRANCIS 1959-1964. Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. 1987.

Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery. SAM FRANCIS: A Survey of Paintings 1965-1983. With essay by Pierre Schneider; unpaginated, 27 color plates, including numerous fold-outs. 4to, wraps. 1996.

FRANCIS, Sam. Wanted Female. By Pierre Guyotat. Illustrated with 7 coloured aquatints by Sam Francis. Folio, bound in publisher's full bright red morocco in cloth-covered slipcase. Los Angeles: The Lapis, Press, 1993.

The splendid coloured aquatints which Francis produced to illustrate Guyotat's text were among the last things he did before his death, and are characteristic of his work. One of an edition of 45 copies signed by Guyotat and Francis.

FRANCIS, Sam. Boundayr. By Kathleen Fraser and Sam Francis. Illustrated with 6 original aquatints by Sam Francis. Folio, bound in publisher's wrappers, loose sheets as issued in the original cloth slipcase. Santa Monica, CA: The Lapis Press, 1988.

A brilliant collaboration of Sam Francis (1923-1994), the great American abstract Expressionist painter and the author and poet Kathleen Fraser. One of 35 copies signed by Sam Francis and Kathleen Fraser.

The American Livre de Peintre 17

Saint Paul, Fondation Maeght. SAM FRANCIS: Monotypes et Peintures. Text by Jan Butterfield and Yves Michaud; 80 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. 8vo, wraps. 1983.
Text in French.

Seoul, Kukje Gallery. SAM FRANCIS Works 1965-1991. Unpaginated, 23 color and 1 b&w plates. Oblong 4to, wraps. 1992.
Text in Korean.

Washington, The Phillips Collection. SAM FRANCIS: The Fifties. Texts by Laughlin Phillips, Robert Elkon and Diane W. Upright; 24 pp., 6 color and 6 b&w plates. 8vo, stapled wraps. 1980.

Paris. Galerie Fournier. Entretiens: SAM FRANCIS - Yves Michaud. Paris le 17 Juin, 1& 2 Juillet. 48 pages, illustrated in color. 8vo, wraps. 1985.
Text in French.

WITH ALL LITHOGRAPHS
SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS


POP ART. 1 ¢ Life. By Walasse Ting. 176 pp. Illustrated with 68 coloured lithographs. Folio, 420 x 290 mm, loose as issued in original coloured boards and illustrated dust-jacket. Preserved in white cloth chemise and green cloth folding box. [Bern: E.W. Kornfeld, 1964].

The quintessential Pop Art book. One of the special copies with all the lithographs either signed or stamped by the artists. An unparalleled work containing poetry by Walasse Ting and illustrations by twenty-eight well-known Pop artists.

The original graphic work includes prints by Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Riopelle, and Andy Warhol. "Ting, a friend of [Sam] Francis, initiated the project to produce the 'most international' book as an illustration to his own poetry" ( From Manet to Hockney). Francis contributed six lithographs himself as well as soliciting artwork from his various artist friends.

Complete copies with all the prints signed are virtually unobtainable. This deluxe edition was limited to 100 copies of which this is No. 38 belonging to the 20 "Paris Edition" copies.

From Manet to Hockney 135. American Livre de Peintre 55.

Lembark, Connie W. The Prints of SAM FRANCIS: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1960-1990 [SIGNED]. Introduction by Ruth E. Fine; 2 vols., 632 pp. with 410 color and 110 duotone illustrations. Large 4tos in slipcase. New York, Hudson Hills, 1992.

Signed by both artist and author.