Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Works from the Douglas S. Cramer Collection
Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Homage to the Square

细节
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square
signed with artist's monogram and dated 'A57' (lower right)
oil on masonite
24 x 24 in. (60.9 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1957.
来源
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
展览
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Albers Commemorative Exhibition, October 1984.
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Josef Albers: Paintings, January-February 1985.

拍品专文

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


"They contain simple, great statements such as: I'm standing here. I'm resting here. I'm in the world and on the earth. I'm in no hurry to move on. While Mark Rothko sought transcendence, Albers looked for fulfillment here on earth. Mark Rothko approached the ethereal through art. Josef Albers realized 'the spiritual in art'"
(H. Arp quoted in W. Schmied, "Fifteen Notes on Josef Albers," trans. by B. Barrett and Claudia Deniers in Josef Albers, exh. cat., London, 1989, pp. 9-10).