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Homage to the Square: From the Soil
Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: From the Soil
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A 54' (lower right)
oil on masonite
32 x 32in. (81.2 x 81.2cm.)
Executed in 1954
Homage to the Square: From the Soil
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A 54' (lower right)
oil on masonite
32 x 32in. (81.2 x 81.2cm.)
Executed in 1954
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Denise René Hans Meyer, Krefeld
McCrory Corporation, Los Angeles
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 1 December 1994, lot 50
Denise René Hans Meyer, Krefeld
McCrory Corporation, Los Angeles
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 1 December 1994, lot 50
Exhibited
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Constructivism in the Art of the 20th Century, September-December 1978, no. 3.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, October 1979-August 1981, no. 1 (illustrated). This exhibition later travelled to Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; La Jolla, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle, Art Museum; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts and Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts.
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, September-December 1984, no. 165 (illustrated p. 153). This exhibition later travelled to Hokkaido, Museum of Modern Art.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980, October 1985-January 1986 (illustrated p. 167).
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, October 1979-August 1981, no. 1 (illustrated). This exhibition later travelled to Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; La Jolla, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle, Art Museum; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts and Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts.
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, September-December 1984, no. 165 (illustrated p. 153). This exhibition later travelled to Hokkaido, Museum of Modern Art.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980, October 1985-January 1986 (illustrated p. 167).
Sale room notice
Please note that this work has been illustrated in the reverse.