Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.
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Property of the Lillian H. Florsheim Foundation
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Temperate
Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Temperate
signed with monogram and dated 'A61' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square: "Temperate" Albers 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on mansonite
29¾ x 29¾ in. (75.5 x 75.5 cm.)
Painted in 1961
Homage to the Square: Temperate
signed with monogram and dated 'A61' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square: "Temperate" Albers 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on mansonite
29¾ x 29¾ in. (75.5 x 75.5 cm.)
Painted in 1961
Provenance
Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago.
Lillian H. Florsheim, Chicago, acquired from the above, 11 November 1961.
Gifted to the Lillian H. Florsheim Foundation, 21 December 1964.
Lillian H. Florsheim, Chicago, acquired from the above, 11 November 1961.
Gifted to the Lillian H. Florsheim Foundation, 21 December 1964.
Exhibited
Elkhart, Midwest Museum of American Art, Geometric Abstraction, May-June 1985.