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Sam Francis
American, 1923-1994
The Whiteness of the Whale, 1957
oil on canvas
support: 104 5/8 x 85 1/4 x 1.75 inches (265.75 x 216.54 x 11/16 cm); framed: 106 3/8 x 87 11/16 x 3 3/4 inches (270.19 x 222.73 x 9.53 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1959
K1959:2
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Martha Jackson Gallery;purchased by the Albright Art Gallery, February 2, 1959
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