Josef Albers

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Description

Josef Albers
Homage to the Square - Tomb + Foliage
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 65; signed, titled and dated 65 on the reverse
oil on masonite
101 by 101cm.
39 3/4 by 39 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Denise René - Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1973

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Denise René, Josef Albers, 1968

Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Josef Albers Retrospektive, 1970

Düsseldorf, Galerie Denise René - Hans Meyer, Achrocharge, 1970

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Josef Albers, 1973

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Josef Albers, 1973

Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, The Rectangular View, Design and Art in Dialogue, Cologne 2004, p. 28, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of paintings by Josef Albers currently being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

"Choice of the colours used, as well as their order, is aimed at interaction - influencing and changing each other back and forth.

Thus, character and feeling alters from painting to painting without any additional 'hand writing' or, so called, texture.

In consequence, the move forth and back, in and out, and grow up and down and near and far, as well as, enlarged and diminished. All this, to proclaim colour autonomy as a means of plastic organisation." (Josef Albers, "On my Homage to the Square" quoted in Exhibition Catalogue, Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Josef Albers, 1989, p. 41)