Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: From the Soil
signed with monogram and dated '54; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
oil on masonite
32 x 32in. (81.2 x 81.2cm.)
Homage to the Square: From the Soil
signed with monogram and dated '54; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
oil on masonite
32 x 32in. (81.2 x 81.2cm.)
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Exhibited
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Constructivism in the Art of the 20th Century, September-December 1978, no. 3
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; 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, Museum of Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Milwaukee Art Center, Constuctivism and the Geometric Tradition, October 1979-August 1981, pp. 54 and 78, no. 1 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, September-December 1984, p. 153, no. 165 (illustrated in the catalogue)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Contrasts of Form; Geometric Abstract Art, 1910-1980, October 1985-January 1986, p. 167 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; 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, Museum of Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Milwaukee Art Center, Constuctivism and the Geometric Tradition, October 1979-August 1981, pp. 54 and 78, no. 1 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, September-December 1984, p. 153, no. 165 (illustrated in the catalogue)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Contrasts of Form; Geometric Abstract Art, 1910-1980, October 1985-January 1986, p. 167 (illustrated in the catalogue)