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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Lot 164

JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Study to Homage to the Square: New Signal

Closed12 November 2021

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USD 350,000

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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Study to Homage to the Square: New Signal
incised with the artist's monogram and date 'A 58' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Study to Homage to the Square: "New Signal" Albers 1958' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1958.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Conner, New York
By descent from the above to the present owner

Specialist note

"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 my paintings, I have tried to make two polarities meet-independence and inter- dependence.”
– Josef Albers