JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Lot 133
27.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1380766
Lot 133 | JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Light Green Front
incised with the artist's monogram and date 'A 59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '"Light Green Front" Albers 1959' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
23 ½ x 27 in. (59.7 x 68.6 cm.)
Painted in 1959.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007



Exhibited

Meadville, Pennsylvania, Allegheny College; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Milwaukee, Layton School of Art; Cleveland Institute of Art and Minneapolis College of Art, Josef Albers, January-May 1960.
Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Josef Albers Showcase Exhibition, April-September 1979.
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Color: Pure and Simple, September-November 1987, n.p., no. 1 (titled Variant: Green Light Front).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Joseph Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color, January-February 2007, p. 64 (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 JAAF 1976.1.1073.
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