Lot 156
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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: Light Orange, Violet with Deep Red & Blue

Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Light Orange, Violet with Deep Red & Blue
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A56' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study for Homage to the Square Albers 1956' (on the reverse)
casein on masonite
17 7/8 x 17 7/8in. (45.4 x 45.4cm.)
Executed in 1956
Provenance
Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich.
Moos Gallery, Toronto.
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 8 February 1986, lot 48.
Edward Totah Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1980s.
Literature
G. Alviani (ed.), Josef Albers, Milan 1988, no. 213 (illustrated in colour, p. 146).
Exhibited
Hagen, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Joself Albers, 1957, no. 83.
Freiburg, Kunstverein Freiburg im Breisgau, Josef Albers. Zum 70. Geburtstag, 1958, no. 68.
Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, Josef Albers: Zur Verleihung des Conrad von Soest Preises, 1959.
Zurich, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Josef Albers, 1960, no. 38.
Further details
This work will be included in the forthcoming Josef Albers Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by The Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.

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Lot Essay

'I know my interest in color comes from handling color for years... I like to believe that in playing with color combinations I came across a promising accident (as happens sometimes) and I did not overlook it but tried to articulate it... I’ll continue as long as I am able. Not because of the squares but because there is no end with color'
(J. Albers, quoted in J.H. Holloway and J.A. Weil, ‘A Conversation with Josef Albers’, in Leonardo, vol. 3, no. 4, October 1970, pp. 462-463).

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