Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.
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Property from the Collection of Maximilian Schell
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Pompeian
Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Pompeian
signed with monogram and dated 'A63' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Pompeian" Albers 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite in artist's frame
18 x 18 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.)
framed: 30 x 30 in. (76.3 x 76.3 cm.)
Painted in 1963.
Homage to the Square: Pompeian
signed with monogram and dated 'A63' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Pompeian" Albers 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite in artist's frame
18 x 18 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.)
framed: 30 x 30 in. (76.3 x 76.3 cm.)
Painted in 1963.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Josef Albers: A Retrospective, March-October 1988, p. 254, no. 211 (illustrated in color).
Munich, Villa Stuck, Anni und Josef Albers, Eine Retrospektive, December 1989-February 1990, pp. 104 and 138, no. 94 (illustrated in color).
Munich, Villa Stuck, Anni und Josef Albers, Eine Retrospektive, December 1989-February 1990, pp. 104 and 138, no. 94 (illustrated in color).