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Abstract painting with bold blue, red, and purple paint splashes framing a wide white center.

Paintings

Abstraction

Sam Francis

1959

Medium
Oil and acrylic on linen
Dimensions
Overall: 84 1/4 × 50 1/8 in. (214 × 127.3 cm)
Accession number
60.16
Acquired
1960
Credit line
Udo M. Reinach Bequest
Reproduction credit
© Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Sam Francis, Abstraction, 1959. Oil and acrylic on linen, overall: 84 1/4 × 50 1/8 in. (214 × 127.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Udo M. Reinach Bequest 60.16. © Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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