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Study for Homage to the Square: Towards Autumn
Details
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Towards Autumn
incised with the artist’s monogram and date ‘A61’ (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square "Towards Autumn" Albers 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 x 24 in. (60.9 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1961.
Study for Homage to the Square: Towards Autumn
incised with the artist’s monogram and date ‘A61’ (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square "Towards Autumn" Albers 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 x 24 in. (60.9 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1961.
Provenance
Finch College, New York, gift of the artist, 1964
Edward Totah Gallery, London
Private collection, Italy
Anon. sale; Aste Boetto, Genova, 16 April 2013, lot 241
Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Edward Totah Gallery, London
Private collection, Italy
Anon. sale; Aste Boetto, Genova, 16 April 2013, lot 241
Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
G. Alviani, ed., Josef Albers, Milan, 1988, p. 157, no. 224.
Exhibited
North Carolina Museum of Art. Josef Albers, February-March 1962, no. 44.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery; Berkeley, University of California, Kroeber Hall, Worth Ryder Art Gallery and Warren, General Motors Styling Center, The Interaction of Color: A Presentation of Paintings and the Color Theory of Josef Albers, April 1963-February 1964.
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Artists Select, October-December 1964, n.p., no. 1 (illustrated).
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection, May-June 1971.
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Permanent Collection with New Gifts, March-April 1974.
Dusseldorf, Galerie Ludorff, 40 Jahre, 40 Meisterwerke, September 2015-January 2016, pp. 4, 81 and 128 (illustrated).
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery; Berkeley, University of California, Kroeber Hall, Worth Ryder Art Gallery and Warren, General Motors Styling Center, The Interaction of Color: A Presentation of Paintings and the Color Theory of Josef Albers, April 1963-February 1964.
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Artists Select, October-December 1964, n.p., no. 1 (illustrated).
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection, May-June 1971.
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Permanent Collection with New Gifts, March-April 1974.
Dusseldorf, Galerie Ludorff, 40 Jahre, 40 Meisterwerke, September 2015-January 2016, pp. 4, 81 and 128 (illustrated).
Further details
This work will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Josef Albers currently being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation under number JAAF 1961.1.27.
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