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Alpha

© Estate of Morris Louis / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Morris Louis

American, 1912-1962

Alpha, 1960

acrylic resin paint on canvas

overall: 105 x 145 inches (266.7 x 368.3 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1964

K1964:5

Currently On View

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Inscriptions

signature, dated / back / Alpha / M. Louis 1960

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York;
sold to Seymour H. Knox, Jr. for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, March 19, 1964

Class

Paintings (visual works)

Work Type

Acrylic painting (visual work)

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