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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 as No. JAAF 1976.1.342.
“Transparency, overlapping, depth to surface relationships, relativity of value or light intensity, sensations of openness, closedness, warmth or coolness, projection or recession, even the definition of hue as hue, all are achieved through the effects of color juxtapositions in exactingly determined situations. Here more than ever, the projection of light through color interaction is conclusively demonstrated. As such, light is Albers’ fourth dimension: a phenomenal presence and an immaterial illusion. It is both the means and end in the psychic effects produced.”
Margit Rowell quoted in Artforum, 10 January 1972, p. 27.
“Transparency, overlapping, depth to surface relationships, relativity of value or light intensity, sensations of openness, closedness, warmth or coolness, projection or recession, even the definition of hue as hue, all are achieved through the effects of color juxtapositions in exactingly determined situations. Here more than ever, the projection of light through color interaction is conclusively demonstrated. As such, light is Albers’ fourth dimension: a phenomenal presence and an immaterial illusion. It is both the means and end in the psychic effects produced.”
Margit Rowell quoted in Artforum, 10 January 1972, p. 27.