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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Lot 220 PROPERTY FROM THE PARNASSUS COLLECTION

JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: Lighting Up

Closed14 February 2014

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GBP 140,500

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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Lighting Up
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A 57' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Lighting Up" Albers 1957' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
16.1/8 x 16.1/8in. (41 x 41cm.)
Painted in 1957

Anon. sale, Lempertz Cologne, 2 December 2005, lot 1.
Acquired by the present owner in 2006.

Specialist note

‘We are able to hear a single tone. But we almost never (that is without special devises) see a single color unconnected and unrelated to other colors. Colors present themselves in continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions’

(J. Albers, Interaction of Color, New Haven 1971, p. 5).