Josef Albers

Study for Homage to the Square: Gobelin

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Josef Albers

1888 - 1976

Study for Homage to the Square: Gobelin

incised with the artist’s monogram and dated 62 (lower right); signed, titled and dated 1962 (on the reverse)

oil on Masonite, in artist's chosen frame

76.2 by 76.2 cm. 30 by 30 in.

Executed in 1962.

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 1962.1.99.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York

William Pall Gallery, New York

Waddington Galleries Ltd., London (acquired from the above in 1983)

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1985)

Sotheby's, London, 25 February 1988, lot 378 (consigned by the above)

Edward Totah Gallery, London (acquired from the above sale)

Galleria Tega, Milan

Waddington Galleries Ltd., London

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

New York, Museum of Modern Art (organiser); Caracas, Galleria Mendoza; Montevideo, Centro de Artes y Letras; Buenos Aires, Instituto Torcuato di Tella; Lima, Instituto de Arte Contemporañeo; Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos; São Paulo, Museu de Arte Contemporañea; Quito, Ecuadoran-American Cultural Center; Guayaquil, USCIS Guayaquil de Cultura Ecuatoriana; Bogotá, Bi-National Center; Santiago, Museo de Arte Contemporañeo; Mexico City, Museo de Arte y Ciencias de la Universidad; Knoxville, Dulin Gallery of Art; West Virginia, Huntington Galleries; Rochester, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Oswego, State University of New York Oswego; Atlanta, Atlanta Art Associations Museum; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Chattanooga, George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Wisconsin, Madison Art Center; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Wichita, Wichita Art Museum, Josef Albers: Homage to the Square, March 1964 – January 1967, no. 22, n.p. (checklist)

London, Edward Totah Gallery, Josef Albers, May – July 1988

Getulio Alviani, ed., Josef Albers, Milan 1998, no. 251, p. 174, illustrated in colour