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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Homage to the Square: Ancient Glow
Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Ancient Glow
signed with artist's monogram and dated '56' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Study to Homage to the Square "Ancient Glow" Albers 1956' (on the reverse)
oil on aluminum
24 x 24 in. (60.9 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1956.
Homage to the Square: Ancient Glow
signed with artist's monogram and dated '56' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Study to Homage to the Square "Ancient Glow" Albers 1956' (on the reverse)
oil on aluminum
24 x 24 in. (60.9 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1956.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist, 1956
By descent from the above to the present owner
By descent from the above to the present owner
Exhibited
Princeton University Art Museum, In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of The Art Museum, Princeton University, February-June 1997, p. 306, no. 289 (illustrated).