Video: The Art and Life of Sam Francis, A special discussion with Debra Burchett-Lere, Director and President of the Sam Francis Foundation and Kayo Malik, Sam Francis’s daughter

An exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed California artist Sam Francis now on view at Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert through April 29, 2019.

Drawing upon diverse influences including Fauvism, French Impressionism and Modernism, Color Field painting, and Japanese calligraphy, Francis is considered a central figure of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists whose pioneering style helped to establish the movement on the West Coast and internationally.

Standouts on view include Untitled, 1961-62, from his prominent Blue Balls series, which he first began in Paris during the early 1960’s, and A Whirling Square, 1975, a monumental oil on canvas from the collection of Francis’s daughter, Kayo Francis Malik, on view for the first time in over 20 years.