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Hi there. We are back on Art Curious today with another interview episode for you. Today's episode

features a conversation about Light on Fire, the first

comprehensive biography of the life and work of the abstract artist Sam Francis by award-winning

author Gabrielle Sells. Drawing from exclusive interviews and private correspondence,

including that of Ed Roushay and Robert Irwin, Sells traces Francis's extraordinary

and complex life. Francis first learned how to paint as a former Air Corps pilot while he was

encased for three years in a full body cast. His insatiable desire spanned women, places, experiences,

art movements, and business deals for Francis to reach

equilibrium. He courted change and drama, even encouraging conflict because it forced him to

retreat into his art, and it paid off. As a young man, Sam saw his color-drenched abstractions

fetched the highest prices of any living artist.

With an international scope from World War II San Francisco to post-war Paris to New York,

Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Light on Fire reveals the intimate story of a man who sought to resolve

in art the contradictions he couldn't resolve in his life.

Light on Fire is a revelatory biography that uncovers the formative events in Francis's life, along with the fictions he created around

himself and his work. Gabrielle Sells is the award-winning author of Unstill Life, a daughter's

memoir of Art and Love in the age of abstraction and light on fire.

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