Josef Albers
Gay Desert
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February 26, 05:59 PM GMT
Estimate
280,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Josef Albers
1888 - 1976
Gay Desert
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 48-53 (lower right); signed, titled, dated 48-53 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on wood fiberboard
14 ⅛ by 27 in.
35.9 by 68.6 cm.
Executed in 1948-53.
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 1948.1.24.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Florence Knoll Bassett, Coral Gables (acquired from the above in 1956)
Phillips New York, 13 November 2019, lot 139 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Josef & Anni Albers, Paintings, Tapestries & Woven Textiles, July - August 1953, no. 33, p. 6
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