Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Study for Homage to the Square: "After Dusk"

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: "After Dusk"
signed with artist's monogram and dated 'A64' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Study for Homage to the Square: "After Dusk" Albers 1964' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
23 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (60.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted in 1964.
Provenance
Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

“In my work I am content to compete with myself and to search with simple palette and with simple color for manifold instrumentation. So I dare further variants” -Josef Albers
(Josef Albers, quoted in Josef Albers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : An Exhibition of His Paintings and Prints, New York, 1971).

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