JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Nacre, from Soft Edge-Hard Edge

Details

JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Nacre, from Soft Edge-Hard Edge
screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper
17 x 17 in. (43.2 x 43.2 mm.)
Executed in 1965. Published by Ives-Sillmann, Inc., New York. This work is number two hundred and forty from the edition of two hundred and fifty.

Provenance

Multiples, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above
By descent to the present owner

Literature

B. Danilowitz, The Prints of Josef Albers: A Catalogue Raisonné 1915-1976, Hudson Hills Press together with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New York, 2001, p. 108, no. 165.3 (another example from the edition illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

'When I paint
I think and see
first and most - color
but color as motion

Color not only accompanying
form of lateral extension
and after being moved
remaining arrested

But of perpetual inner movement
as aggression - to and from the spectator
besides interaction and interdependence
with shape and hue and light

Color in a direct and frontal focus
and when closely felt
as a breathing and pulsating
- from within'

(Josef Albers, Soft Edge-Hard Edge, 1965.)

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