Josef Albers

Three screenprints in colors, 1974, each initialed in pencil, dated, titled, inscribed 'OK to print', the right to print proofs before the numbered edition of 36, from the Gray Instrumentation I portfolio, on Arches 88 paper, printed by Tyler Graphics, New York, framed (3 prints)

The prints are in good condition, the full sheets. An occasional scuff mark, most apparent in raking light in each image (the most visible is 1/2 inch in diameter). Unobtrusive surface soiling and scuff marks in the margins with time-stain at the extreme sheet edges. Condition notes for each print: I b: The verso with occasional surface soiling. I c: Three soft corners. The verso with six tiny fox marks, four concentrated in the right half of the sheet. I d: Two inconspicuous fox marks below the bottom corners of the image.
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An incomplete proof is on the verso of I d.