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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Lot 148Legacy of Color: The Collection of Nicole Emmerich Teweles

JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

Homage to the Square: Intrepid

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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Intrepid
incised with the artist's monogram and date 'A 50' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square "Intrepid" Albers '50' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite, in artist's frame
24 3/8 x 24 3/8 in. (61.7 x 61.7 cm.)
Painted in 1950.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 19 November 1981, lot 16
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 February 1985, lot 18
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1985

Note du spécialiste

"For me colour is my idiom. It’s automatic. I’m not paying “homage to the square”. It’s only the dish I serve my craziness about colour 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... Colour, in my opinion, behaves like man - in two distinct ways: first in self-realisation and then in the realisation of relationships with others... In other words, one must combine both being an individual and being a member of society." Josef Albers