Sam Francis

Abstraction

1959

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

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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Date
1959

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil and acrylic on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 84 1/4 × 50 1/8 in. (214 × 127.3 cm)

Accession number
60.16

Credit line
Udo M. Reinach Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/1769



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