Circuits of Modernism: The Collection of Vicki and David Cox
Josef Albers
Vice Versa B
Session begins in
November 19, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Bid
35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Circuits of Modernism: The Collection of Vicki and David Cox
Josef Albers
1888 - 1976
Vice Versa B
titled (lower left); signed with the artist's monogram (lower right); inscribed 8/6/IV (upper center, beneath the mat)
oil and pencil on blotting paper
image: 9 ½ by 19 in. 24.1 by 48.3 cm.
sheet: 16 ¼ by 22 in. 41.3 by 55.9 cm.
Executed circa 1943.
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 1943.2.1.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ives, Woodbridge, Connecticut (acquired directly from the artist)
Fred R. Kline, Santa Fe (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 15 February 1989, lot 40 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Wright, Chicago, 14 May 2002, lot 106 (consigned by the above)
Steven Wolf, San Francisco (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in May 2002 by the present owner
The work is a study for Albers's Vice Versa (B), 1943 held in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972.
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