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RADIANT MODERNISM: SIGNAC TO ALBERS - THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Warm Silence
Details
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Warm Silence
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A71' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study for Homage to the Square "Warm Silence" Albers 1971' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 x 24in. (60.6 x 60.6cm.)
Painted in 1971
Study for Homage to the Square: Warm Silence
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A71' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study for Homage to the Square "Warm Silence" Albers 1971' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 x 24in. (60.6 x 60.6cm.)
Painted in 1971
Provenance
Lee V. Eastman Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1971).
His sale, Christie’s New York, 9 November 2005, lot 226.
Richard Green, London.
Acquired from the above in 2010, and thence by descent to the present owner.
His sale, Christie’s New York, 9 November 2005, lot 226.
Richard Green, London.
Acquired from the above in 2010, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
K. Zgraja and C. Urchueguia (eds.), Klang und Stille in der Bildenden Kunst: Visuelle Manifestationen akustischer Phänomene, Basel 2021, pp. 241, 254, 262 and 263, no. 9 (illustrated in colour, p. 255).
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Josef Albers: A Retrospective, 1988, p. 41, no. 226 (illustrated in colour, p. 269). This exhibition later travelled to Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv and Pori, Pori Art Museum.
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, De Renoir a Sam Szafran: Parcours d’un collectionneur, 2010-2011, pp. 138 and 264, no. 62 (illustrated in colour, p. 139).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, De Renoir a Sam Szafran: Parcours d’un collectionneur, 2010-2011, pp. 138 and 264, no. 62 (illustrated in colour, p. 139).
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 1971.1.6.
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