Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Lot 168 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Homage to the Square

Closed7 February 2008

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GBP 216,500

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square
oil on masonite
28½ x 28½in. (72.4 x 72.4cm.)
Painted in 1967

Sydney Janis Gallery, New York.
Edward Totah Gallery, London.
Galerie Hadrien Thomas, Paris.

Specialist note

This work has been authenticated by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and while the work will be included in the forthcoming Josef Albers catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, it should be noted that the annotations and signature on the reverse of this work are not by Albers and were added by an unknown hand.



'In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This first makes color the most relative medium in art. In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. To this end, the beginning is not a study of color systems.'

(Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, New Haven 1963, p. 1.)