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  |  | FRANCIS Sam (1923-1994) "I live in a paradise of diabolical blue balls where I pursue this unique mathematic of my imagination." 
    
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    | 1923 | born in California in San Mateo |  
    | 1944 | injured with a plane crash during war |  
    | 1948 | meets American painters known as action painters uses many techniques: dripping, all over
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    | 1950 | settles in Paris and realizes his first personal exhibition two years later |  
    | 1994 | died in Santa Monica |  |