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Lot 672 Property from an Important American Estate
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: Mellow
Closed16 November 2018
Price Realised
USD 516,500
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Specialist note
The work is registered in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Josef Albers as 1960.1.54.
“We are able to hear a single tone, but we almost never (that is, without special devices) see a single color unconnected and unrelated to other colors. Colors present themselves in 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
“We are able to hear a single tone, but we almost never (that is, without special devices) see a single color unconnected and unrelated to other colors. Colors present themselves in 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