Sale 1574
New York
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9 November 2005
Price realised
USD 408,000
Estimate
Josef Albers (1888-1976) Homage to the Square: Warm Silence signed with monogram and dated 'A 71' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Warm Silence" Albers 1971' (on the reverse) oil on masonite 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm.) Painted in 1971.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist
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Exhibited
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Berlin, Bauhaus-Archive, Josef Albers: A Retrospective, March-October 1988, n.p., no. 226 (illustrated in color).
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.
Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Collection of Lee V. Eastman
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