![]() ![]() "Selz’s engaging book gamely takes readers along for the ride as Francis hops between countries, lovers, and commissions, eternally courting the change and drama that fueled his work. This biography of a mercurial rogue has something to amuse or annoy most aficionados." - Library Journal Reviews "Quality research supplies a dramatis personae that's a hit list of 20th-century art giants. With settings from World War II San Francisco to postwar Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Selz crafts an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life. Agee described as a rare artist participating in the “visionary reconstruction of art history,” defying creative boundaries among the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. Light on Fire captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man whom the art historian and museum director William C. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several nonprofits. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. Based on Gabrielle Selz’s unprecedented access to Francis’s files, as well as private correspondence and hundreds of interviews, this book traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.
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