Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: Ancient

Details

Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Ancient
signed with the artist's monogram and dated '63' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Ancient" Albers 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1963.

Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 23 February 2000, lot 203
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Further details

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

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Lot Essay

Colors represent themselves in a continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions. As a consequence, this proves for the reading of color what Kandinsky often demanded for the reading of art: what counts is not the what but the how”
-Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, New Heaven, 1963, p. 5.

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