Josef Albers

Study for a Homage to the Square

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May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property Sold the Benefit the Yale School of Art

Josef Albers

1888 - 1976

Study for a Homage to the Square

variously inscribed (lower right)

oil and graphite on blotting paper

13 ⅛ by 12 ⅛ in.

33.3 by 30.8 cm.

Executed circa 1968-69.

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 1976.2.71.

Please refer to sothebys.com for updated dimensions for this work.

Courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

Walsall, New Art Gallery, Blue: Borrowed and New, February - April 2000

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum Basel; Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou: Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Painting on Paper: Josef Albers in America, December 2010 - October 2012, no. 51, p. 125, illustrated in color, and p. 188