Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
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Homage to the Square: White Nimbus
Details
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: White Nimbus
signed with artist's monogram and dated 'A64' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square: "White Nimbus" Albers 1964' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1964.
Homage to the Square: White Nimbus
signed with artist's monogram and dated 'A64' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square: "White Nimbus" Albers 1964' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1964.
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1967
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1967
Literature
P. Rylands ed., Hannelore B. and Rudolphe B. Schulhof Collection, New York, 2011, pp. 32-33, fig. 19 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, December 1967-February 1968, no. 1.
Krefeld, Galerie Denise René-Hans Meyer, Spring 1967.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Josef Albers, A Retrospective, March-May 1988, p. 270, no. 227 (illustrated in color).
Krefeld, Galerie Denise René-Hans Meyer, Spring 1967.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Josef Albers, A Retrospective, March-May 1988, p. 270, no. 227 (illustrated in color).
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