Sam Francis Cobalt Blue

Cobalt Blue: Writings from the papers of Sam Francis beautifully combines the artist’s writing with his works on paper in an elegantly designed book. This new collection includes writings from Francis’s journals that have never been published before and previous essays from catalogs long out-of-print. The collection ends with extensive excerpts from the interview by distinguished French philosopher Yves Michaud, published in France by Galerie Jean Fournier in 1988. “A Note on This Edition” is provided by the editor, writer and artist Jaime Robles, who ran the letterpress division of the Lapis Press in Santa Monica from the mid to late 1980s. The book is introduced by artist–writer Nancy Mozur, the administrative director and curator of the Litho Shop, Sam Francis’s painting and printmaking atelier, from 1971–1989. Sam Francis (1923–94) kept journals and diaries during the entire span of his five- decades career as a leading Abstract Expressionist artist famed for his colorful lyricism