Josef Albers
Study to Homage to the Square: Juxtaposed
Auction Closed
September 28, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Josef Albers
1888 - 1976
Study to Homage to the Square: Juxtaposed
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 57 (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1957 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 by 24 in.
61 by 61 cm.
Executed in 1957.
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 1976.1.1822.
Estate of Josef Albers
The Josef Albers Foundation
The Anni and Josef Albers Foundation (after 1994)
Waddington Galleries, London
Pace Wildenstein, New York
Private Collection, Europe
Edward Tyler Nahem, New York
Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni; Valencia, Centre Julio González, Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum, Josef Albers: Glass, Color, and Light, July 1994 - April 1995
London, Waddington Galleries, Josef Albers: Homage to the Square, Paintings and Photographs (1928 - 1938), March - April 2001, no. 1, p. 3, illustrated in color
Palm Desert, Heather James Fine Art, Josef Albers: The Heart of Painting, May - November 2022
