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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
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Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: "2 Grays between 2 Yellows"

Closed1 July 2010

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: "2 Grays between 2 Yellows"
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A61' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study for Homage to the Square: "2 Grays between 2 Yellows" Albers 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
32 x 32 in (81.3 x 81.3cm.)
Painted in 1961

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1965.

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Joseph Albers Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by The Anni and Josef Albers Foundation and is registered as number 1961.1.22.

"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is--as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually."
(Albers quoted in F.A. Horowitz and B. Danilowitz, Josef Albers: To Open Eyes. The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale, New York 2006, p. 195)