.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
This work is to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.
"The word variety, although recently a favored design term, has become discredited because of increased abuse...To replace this negative criterion, we are in favor of a related word of better reputation, the design term 'variant.' As variety usually concerns changes of details, variant means a more thorough re-doing of a whole of a part within a given scheme...On the whole, variants demonstrate, besides a sincere attitude, a healthy belief that there is no final solution in form; thus form demands unending performance and invites constant reconsideration--visually as well as verbally" (J. Albers, Interaction of Color, New Haven, 1963, p. 74).
"The word variety, although recently a favored design term, has become discredited because of increased abuse...To replace this negative criterion, we are in favor of a related word of better reputation, the design term 'variant.' As variety usually concerns changes of details, variant means a more thorough re-doing of a whole of a part within a given scheme...On the whole, variants demonstrate, besides a sincere attitude, a healthy belief that there is no final solution in form; thus form demands unending performance and invites constant reconsideration--visually as well as verbally" (J. Albers, Interaction of Color, New Haven, 1963, p. 74).