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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Lot 219 MAPPING MODERN ART IN ITALY: HALF A CENTURY OF ART FROM AN EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: Reciprocal

Closed17 October 2014

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GBP 86,500

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Reciprocal
signed with the artist's monogram and dated ‘A68’ (lower right); signed, titled and dated ‘Study for Homage to the Square: “Reciprocal” Albers 1968' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
15 7/8 x 15 7/8in. (40.2 x 40.2cm.)
Executed in 1968

Private Collection, Zurich (a gift from the artist in 1968).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s Doha, 18 March 2009, lot 142.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘In Albers’s painting there is very much a simple, suitable and natural wholeness to the arrangement of squares within squares, which is one of the best ideas in the world, one which provided enormous versatility and complexity. This arrangement is easily at one with the color’ (D. Judd, quoted in Josef Albers, exh. cat., The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, 1991, p. 10).