JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

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Lot 307 | JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Homage to the Square: Osmosis

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Homage to the Square: "Osmosis" Albers 1959'; inscribed with a handwritten description of media used (on the reverse)

oil on masonite

40 x 40in. (101.6 x 101.6cm.)

Painted in 1959





Provenance

André and Connie Emmerich Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1960).

Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 November 1993, lot 265 (incorrectly illustrated as lot 323A).

Private Collection, Switzerland.

Galeria Elvira González, Madrid.

Waddington Galleries, London.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001.



Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Josef Albers: Homage to the Square Paintings and Photographs (1928-1938), 2001, p. 54, no. 5 (illustrated in colour, p. 15).



Post Lot Text

The work is registered in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Josef Albers as 1959.1.86.
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