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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Lot 514AProperty of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Expanding (Homage to the Square)

Fermé14 May 2015

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Expanding (Homage to the Square)
signed with artist’s monogram and dated ‘A 54’ (lower left); signed again, titled and dated again ‘”Expanding” (Homage to the Square) Albers ‘54’ (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1954.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Dr. Frank Stanton, Boston and New York
Gift from the above to the present owner

Note du spécialiste

‘For me color is my idiom. It’s automatic. I’m not paying “homage to the square”. It’s only the dish I serve my craziness about color in... All rendering of form, in fact all creative work moves between polarities: intuition and intellect, or possibly between subjectivity and objectivity. Their relative importance continually varies and they more or less always overlap... Color, in my opinion, behaves like man - in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others... In other words, one must combine both being an individual and being a member of society’ (J. Albers, quoted in G. Alviani (ed.), Josef Albers, Milan 1988, pp. 235-236).