Live Auction 16978Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Lot 689 A Family Vision: The Collection of H. S. H. Princess “Titi” von Fürstenberg

Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Homage to the Square: Intersecting

Closed16 May 2019

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Intersecting
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A 59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square: "Intersecting" Albers 1959' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1959.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal
Private collection, Montreal
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21 May 1975, lot 174
Cecil “Titi” Blaffer von Fürstenberg, Houston
By descent from the above to the present owners

Specialist note

The work is registered in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Josef Albers as 1959.1.12.