Epis.312: Writer Gabrielle Selz on Sam Francis, an abstract painter who broke all the rules

about: the important first phase of Sam's long art career, in Paris, where he started working on a big painting from his bed in a tiny hotel room he shared with his girlfriend Muriel; how he was a shrewd businessman and cocky self-promoter, a sort of Orson Welles of the art world; how his first patron, Franz Meyer Sr., told Sam he would buy anything he made, thus freeing Sam and bolstering his confidence and security; how Sam wasn't tied to place (he was constantly traveling and living in different countries), nor to style; and how lucrative Sam's career was, including having bank accounts (including Swiss) all over the world, and his philosophy that money flowed through you, and that you should spend it.