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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Lot 156

Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: Light Orange, Violet with Deep Red & Blue

Closed12 February 2015

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GBP 188,500

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Light Orange, Violet with Deep Red & Blue
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A56' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study for Homage to the Square Albers 1956' (on the reverse)
casein on masonite
17 7/8 x 17 7/8in. (45.4 x 45.4cm.)
Executed in 1956

Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich.
Moos Gallery, Toronto.
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 8 February 1986, lot 48.
Edward Totah Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1980s.

Specialist note

'I know my interest in color comes from handling color for years... I like to believe that in playing with color combinations I came across a promising accident (as happens sometimes) and I did not overlook it but tried to articulate it... I’ll continue as long as I am able. Not because of the squares but because there is no end with color'
(J. Albers, quoted in J.H. Holloway and J.A. Weil, ‘A Conversation with Josef Albers’, in Leonardo, vol. 3, no. 4, October 1970, pp. 462-463).