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Robert Motherwell
American, 1915-1991
The August Sea #6, 1972
acrylic on canvas
support: 71 3/4 x 53 7/8 inches (182.245 x 136.8425 cm); framed: 73 1/2 x 55 3/4 inches (186.69 x 141.61 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1972
K1972:13
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from the artist to Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, 1972;purchased by Seymour H. Knox, Jr. and presented to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, December 1972
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