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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Red Front
Details
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Red Front
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A47-56' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '''Red Front'' Albers 1947-56' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
22 x 26in. (55.9 x 66cm.)
Painted in 1947-1956
Red Front
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A47-56' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '''Red Front'' Albers 1947-56' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
22 x 26in. (55.9 x 66cm.)
Painted in 1947-1956
Provenance
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut.
Waddington Custot Galleries, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.
Waddington Custot Galleries, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011.
Literature
D. Anfam, ‘Josef Albers: Bologna and Modena’, in Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1225, April 2005, fig. 85 (illustrated in colour, p. 279).
J. Saletnik, 'Pedagogic Objects: Josef Albers, Greenbergian Modernism, and the Bauhaus in America', in Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism, 2009, p. 88 (illustrated, p. 86).
Josef Albers: Homage to the Square 1950-1976, Towards a History of Twentieth Century Art, 1950-1976, exh. cat., Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, 2022, no. 32, p. 68 (illustrated in colour, p. 69).
J. Saletnik, 'Pedagogic Objects: Josef Albers, Greenbergian Modernism, and the Bauhaus in America', in Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism, 2009, p. 88 (illustrated, p. 86).
Josef Albers: Homage to the Square 1950-1976, Towards a History of Twentieth Century Art, 1950-1976, exh. cat., Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, 2022, no. 32, p. 68 (illustrated in colour, p. 69).
Exhibited
Bologna, Museo Morandi, Instituzione Galleria d’Arte Moderna del Comune di Bologna, Josef Albers: Omaggio al Quadrato; Una retrospettiva, 2005, no. 41, p. 149 (illustrated in colour, p. 96).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Josef Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color, 2007, p. 80 (illustrated in colour, p. 62).
Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Farbe, Material, Raum: Donald Judd und Josef Albers, 2008.
Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Letze Bilder: Ad Reinhardt, 2010-2011, p. 161 (illustrated in colour, p. 116).
London, Waddington Custot Galleries, Josef Albers: Biconjugates, Kinetics, and Variants, 2011, no. 8, pp. 28 and 70 (illustrated in colour, p. 29).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Josef Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color, 2007, p. 80 (illustrated in colour, p. 62).
Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Farbe, Material, Raum: Donald Judd und Josef Albers, 2008.
Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Letze Bilder: Ad Reinhardt, 2010-2011, p. 161 (illustrated in colour, p. 116).
London, Waddington Custot Galleries, Josef Albers: Biconjugates, Kinetics, and Variants, 2011, no. 8, pp. 28 and 70 (illustrated in colour, p. 29).
Further Details
This work will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Josef Albers currently being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation under number JAAF 1976.1.1115.
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