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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Lot 15
28.03.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1399770
Lot 15 | JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Between 2 Scarlets
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A62' (lower right); signed and dated again, titled, and inscribed with a handwritten description of media used ‘Albers 1962 Homage to the Square: “Between 2 Scarlets”’ (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
101.2 x 101.2 cm. (40 x 40 in.)
Painted in 1962




Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection, Dallas
Private collection, New York
Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1985)
Christie's London, 23 March 2021, lot 48
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

ABC of the DaimlerChrysler art collection: a workbook for learners and students in South Africa, exh. cat., Seippel Verlag, Cologne, 2004 (illustrated, p. 12).
Geometría en el siglo XX en la Daimler Art Collection, exh. cat., The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA), 2010 (illustrated, p. 51; listed, p. 153).
R. Wiehager, Minimalism and After, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2010 (illustrated, p. 135).
R. Wiehager, Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties, exh. cat., Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2012 (illustrated, p.224).
R. Wiehager, Novecento mai visto: capolavori dalla Daimler Art Collection : from Albers to Warhol to (now), exh. cat., Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2013 (illustrated, p. 37, 137 & 173).
Highways and Byways. Together Again., exh. cat., Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2013 (illustrated, p. 6 & 25).



Exhibited

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings by Josef Albers, 5-31 October 1970.
Berlin, New National Gallery, Geometry as Form: Structures of Modern Art from Albers to Paik, 30 April – 11 July 1999.
Karlsruhe, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Daimler Art Collection, 14 May – 31 August 2003.
Detroit Institute of Arts, On the Edge: Daimler Art Collection in Detroit, 29 October 2003 - 18 January 2004.
The Pretoria Art Museum, The Daimler Art Collection in South Africa I, 21 March - 27 June 2004.
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, The Damiler Art Collection in South Africa II, 3 October -6 November 2004.
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Conversation with Art, on Art, 14 January – 26 March 2006.
Berlin, Daimler Contemporary, Classical: Modern I, 12 April – 24 September 2006.
Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), From Bauhaus to (Now!), 16 August – 9 December 2007.
Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, MAXImin: Maximum Minimization in Contemporary Art, 9 February – 25 May 2008.
Schwäbisch Gmünd, Museum und Galerie im Prediger, Art from a Hundred Years 1909-2009, 15 May – 13 September 2009.
The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA), Geometría en el siglo XX en la Daimler Art Collection, 13 August – 25 October 2010.
Berlin, Daimler Contemporary, Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties II, 31 March – 9 September 2012.
Brescia, Museo de Santa Giulia, Novecento Mai Visto: Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection, From Albers to Warhol to (now), 8 March – 30 June 2013.
Berlin, Daimler Contemporary, Highways and Byways. Together Again, 18 October 2013 – 16 March 2014.



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 and is registered under no.1962.1.6.
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