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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Lot 171
17.05.2024 14:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 400 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1209588
Lot 171 | JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Albers, J.
Homage to the Square: Restrained Glow
incised with the artist's monogram and date 'A51' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square 'Restrained Glow' Albers '51' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 x 24 in. (60.9 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1951.




Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Colin Family Collection, New York, 1952
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 11 May 2016, lot 214
Private collection, New York, 2016
Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

“The Colin Collection: From Manet to Arp,” Vogue, vol. 135, no. 8, 15 April 1960, pp. 110 and 149 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Albers: "Homage to the Square" and "Transformations of a Scheme", January 1952.
New York, Downtown Gallery, Art Our Children Live With, December 1957, no. 1.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., The Colin Collection: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, April-May 1960, no. 65 (illustrated).
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Josef Albers: Retrospective Exhibition, February-March 1962, pp. 26 and 29, no. 15 (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 1951.1.15.
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