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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Josef Albers

Study for Homage to the Square: Sel: E.B. 8

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November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Josef Albers

1888 - 1976

Study for Homage to the Square: Sel: E.B. 8


incised with the artist's monogram (lower right); signed, titled and dated 1964 (on the reverse)

oil on Masonite

16 by 16 in.

40.6 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1964.


This work will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Josef Albers currently being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and is registered as JAAF 1964.1 99.

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the artist in April 1972)
Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above) 
Acquired from the above in June 1980 by the present owner 
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Albers, March - April 1973, no. 37, n.p., illustrated in color 
Paris, Galerie Melki, Albers, November - December 1973, no. 14, p. 23, illustrated in color
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, pp. 36-37, illustrated in color (in installation)