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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Lot 74

Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: Ancient

Closed30 September 2015

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Ancient
signed with the artist's monogram and dated '63' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Ancient" Albers 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1963.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 23 February 2000, lot 203
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

Colors represent themselves in a continuous flux, constantly related to changing neighbors and changing conditions. As a consequence, this proves for the reading of color what Kandinsky often demanded for the reading of art: what counts is not the what but the how”
-Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, New Heaven, 1963, p. 5.