Lot 46
46
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
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Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Homage to the Square, Autumn Climax

Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square, Autumn Climax
signed with monogram and dated 'A63' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again '"Homage to the Square: Autumn Climax" Albers 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
48½ x 48½ in. (123.2 x 123.2 cm.)
Painted in 1963.
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Paintings by Josef Albers, March 1963.
New York, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art; Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos and Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, Josef Albers: homenagem au quadrado, November-December 1964, no. 32.
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Lot Essay

"We are able to hear a single tone. But we almost never (that is without special devices) see a single color unrelated to changing neighbors and changing conditions" (Quoted in J. Albers, Interaction of Color, New Haven, 1971, p. 5)

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