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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Lot 15
18.05.2023 01:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 2 500 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 949336
Lot 15 | JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Homage to the Square

incised with the artist's monogram and date 'A71' (lower right)

oil on Masonite

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

Painted in 1971.





Provenance

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015



Literature

C. Darwent, Josef Albers: Life and Work, New York and London, 2018, pp. 36 and 39, no. 11C (illustrated).



Exhibited

London, Hayward Gallery; Dublin, National Gallery of Modern Art; Coventry, Mead Gallery Arts Centre; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art; Norfolk Institute of Art, Norwich Gallery, Josef Albers, February-November 1994, p. 59, no. 49.

Château de Plieux, Josef Albers au Chateau de Plieux, July-September 1998, p. 48, no. 54.

Bottrop Museum, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Letze Bilder: Ad Reinhardt, September 2010-January 2011, p. 127, no. 127 (illustrated and illustrated in the frontispiece).

Paris, Galerie Denise René, Josef Albers, February-March 2012, no. 21 (illustrated).

Paris, Grand Palais, Un Siècle de Lumière et de Mouvement dans l'Art 1913-2013, April-July 2013, p. 211, no. 125 (illustrated).

Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect, March-July 2014, p. 160, no. 109 (illustrated).

Høvikodden, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Josef Albers: no tricks, no twinkling of the eyes, September-December 2014, pp. 91 and 192 (illustrated).



Post Lot Text

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
Artist:Josef Albers (1888 - 1976)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Medium:Masonite
Art style:Post War Art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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