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Light Green Front
Details
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Light Green Front
incised with the artist's monogram and date 'A 59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '"Light Green Front" Albers 1959' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
23 ½ x 27 in. (59.7 x 68.6 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
Light Green Front
incised with the artist's monogram and date 'A 59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated '"Light Green Front" Albers 1959' (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
23 ½ x 27 in. (59.7 x 68.6 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007
Exhibited
Meadville, Pennsylvania, Allegheny College; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Milwaukee, Layton School of Art; Cleveland Institute of Art and Minneapolis College of Art, Josef Albers, January-May 1960.
Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Josef Albers Showcase Exhibition, April-September 1979.
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Color: Pure and Simple, September-November 1987, n.p., no. 1 (titled Variant: Green Light Front).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Joseph Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color, January-February 2007, p. 64 (illustrated).
Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Josef Albers Showcase Exhibition, April-September 1979.
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Color: Pure and Simple, September-November 1987, n.p., no. 1 (titled Variant: Green Light Front).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Joseph Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color, January-February 2007, p. 64 (illustrated).
Further Details
This work will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Josef Albers currently being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation under number JAAF 1976.1.1073.