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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Josef Albers

Study for Homage to the Square: Full Warmth

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November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

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400,000 - 600,000 USD

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Josef Albers

1888 - 1976


Study for Homage to the Square: Full Warmth

incised with the artist's monogram (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1967 and inscribed for James love from Josef Albers Thanksgiving 1969 (on the reverse)

oil on Masonite

18 by 18 in.

45.7 by 45.7 cm.

Executed in 1967. 


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 1967.1.47.

James Lord, Paris (acquired directly from the artist as a gift in December 1969)
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in January 1974 by the present owner 
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Twentieth Century Masters, October - November 1973, no. 1
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)