"My painting is born of my disease. I left hospital by painting. My body was suffering but since I was capable of painting I recovered."
The American painter Sam Francis has developed in his work a new aesthetic of color, a new conception of the canvas, of the artistic gesture, thereby aligning himself with the different movements of his time initiated and developed by artists such as Rothko, Pollock, de Kooning, and Kline. Sam Francis is at the crossroads of American abstraction, lyricism, Tachism, Impressionism, and certain currents of Eastern thought. His work is above all about light, the light which was reflected on the ceiling during his time in hospital: a light whose essence he will always seek to capture. By avoiding figures, Sam Francis eliminates the finite to keep only the infinite. His works are, then, pure fragments of an infinity which extends far beyond the canvas.