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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Property from the Collection of Maximilian Schell
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Dark Core
Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Dark Core
signed with monogram and dated 'A64' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Dark Core" Albers 1964' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1964.
Homage to the Square: Dark Core
signed with monogram and dated 'A64' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "Dark Core" Albers 1964' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1964.
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Benefit Exhibition for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference," October 1968.
Munich, Villa Stuck, Anni und Josef Albers, Eine Retrospektive, December 1989-February 1990, pp. 98, 99 and 138, no. 96 (illustrated in color).
Munich, Villa Stuck, Anni und Josef Albers, Eine Retrospektive, December 1989-February 1990, pp. 98, 99 and 138, no. 96 (illustrated in color).