Lot Essay
This work is to be included in the forthcoming Josef Albers catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.
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Homage to the Square: Receptive
Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Receptive
signed with monogram and dated 'A61' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Receptive" Albers 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
17 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (45.4 x 45.4 cm.)
Painted in 1961
Homage to the Square: Receptive
signed with monogram and dated 'A61' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Receptive" Albers 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
17 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (45.4 x 45.4 cm.)
Painted in 1961
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Molly Strater, New York.
Molly Strater, New York.
Exhibited
Chicago, Fairweather Hardin Gallery, February 1962.
New York, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Members' Art Gallery.
Rome, L'Obelisco Galleria d'Arte, De Mathematicas, 1974.
New York, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Members' Art Gallery.
Rome, L'Obelisco Galleria d'Arte, De Mathematicas, 1974.
Sale room notice
This painting was exhibited at the Fairweather Hardin Gallery in Chicago in 1962 and at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery in New York. It was purchased from the Sidney Janis Gallery by Molly Strater in New York.