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

Study for Homage to the Square: "Osmosis"

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Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Study for Homage to the Square: "Osmosis"
signed with artist's monogram and dated 'A59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'Study to [sic] Homage to the Square: "Osmosis" Albers 1959' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
23 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (60.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
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.

“Albers’ uniqueness resides in the ways his painting has gone along the parallel roads marked Science and Poetry.” -Henry Geldzahler
(Henry Geldzahler, quoted in Josef Albers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : An Exhibition of His Paintings and Prints, New York: 1971, p. 4.)

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