Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation.
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Variant: Brown, Ochre, Yellow
Details
Josef Albers (1898-1976)
Variant: Brown, Ochre, Yellow
signed with monogram and dated 'A47' (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated 'Josef Albers painted in Mexico 1947' (on the reverse of the mount)
oil on paper laid down on board
18 x 23 1/8 in. (45.7 x 58.7 cm.)
Painted in 1947.
Variant: Brown, Ochre, Yellow
signed with monogram and dated 'A47' (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated 'Josef Albers painted in Mexico 1947' (on the reverse of the mount)
oil on paper laid down on board
18 x 23 1/8 in. (45.7 x 58.7 cm.)
Painted in 1947.
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, 1970
Andre Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York
J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, 1970
Andre Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York
Literature
N. F. Weber, Josef Albers: a retrospective, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1988, p. 230. no. 185 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Andre Emmerich, Josef Albers, April-June 1995.
Sale room notice
Please note that this work is a study for the painting illustrated in the Guggenheim Museum Exhibition monograph and is not itself reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.