Round Breast of Jane Mansfield

Artist: Sam Francis American (1923-1994)

Title: Round Breast of Jane Mansfield

Plate: 1C.42A

Description: Condition A+
Original lithograph on white wove paper
From the One Cent Life Portfolio
From edition of 2000 
Printed by Maurice Beaudet, Paris, 1964
Published by E.W. Kornfield, Bern, Switzerland
Signed in the plate lower left
Unnumbered as issued

Reference: The Prints of Sam Francis A Catalogue Raisonné 1960-1990' by Connie Lembark, Cat. No. L.83

Collections: British Museum, London, MOMA, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Stedelijk Collection, Amsterdam, National Gallery of Australia 

Shipped boxed flat via FedEx. 
Certificate of Authenticity.

Image Size: 11 in x 15 1/2 in 27.9 cm x 39.3 cm

Sheet Size: 11 1/2 in x 16 1/8 in 29.2 cm x 40.9 cm

Price: Temporarily out of stock

I can usually source this poster. If you are interested please contact me. Greg

"The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human." Sam Francis

 

Sam Francis

 

Sam Francis occupies a prominent position in post-war American painting. Although associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement and Clement Greenberg's Post-Painterly Abstraction, unlike many American painters of he time he had direct and prolonged exposure to French painting and to Japanese art which had an individual impact on his work. (samfrancis.com)

 

 

"By 1957, when the above picture was taken, the Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield already had a lot of negative publicity due to her repeated successful attempts to expose her breasts in carefully staged public “accidents”.

 

In April of 1957, Hollywood was hosting a dinner party for the Italian actress, Sophia Loren at the Romanoff’s. Mansfield’s bosom again became the feature of a notorious publicity stunt intended to deflect attention from the Italian star. Photographs of the encounter were published around the world.

 

This most famous image (by Delmar Watson) showed Loren raising an eyebrow at the American actress who, sitting between Loren and her dinner companion, Clifton Webb, had leaned over the table, allowing her breasts to spill over her low neckline and exposing one nipple. The next day, the gleeful press termed it ‘the Battle of the Bulge". (iconicphotos.wordpress.com)

 

 

"During the Second World War Sam Francis served as a pilot with the American armed forces. He took up painting while recovering from a flying accident in 1944. From 1950-7 he lived in Paris, where he saw first-hand the paintings of Monet, Matisse, Cézanne and Bonnard. In September 1956 he visited an exhibition of Monet's 'Water Lilies', paintings which had aroused his interest for some time and which had an impact on his work. For Francis each colour has a symbolic value: white corresponds to the infinite, blue to the cosmos and water, and yellow to the sun. His experience as a pilot has a bearing on his paintings..." (tate.org)

 

Portfolio Cover by Lichtenstein

 

One Cent Life Portfolio

The 1964 One Cent Life Portfolio was written by Walasse Ting, edited by Sam Francis, and published by E.W. Kornfeld. This ambitious project of loose limited edition color lithographs, beautifully incorporates American Pop and European Expressionism.

 

See Greg's collection of One Cent Life

 

 

The complete portfolio includes 62 original lithographs by Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana, Asger Jorn, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Antonio Saura, Bram Van Velde, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and other American and European POP artists.

 

"It very quickly became the manifesto of a new generation of painters and the expression of the new pictorial research that they were engaged in….” (Gemini Fine Books & Arts, Ltd.)