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JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Osmosis
细节
JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Osmosis
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Homage to the Square: "Osmosis" Albers 1959'; inscribed with a handwritten description of media used (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
40 x 40in. (101.6 x 101.6cm.)
Painted in 1959
Homage to the Square: Osmosis
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A59' (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'Homage to the Square: "Osmosis" Albers 1959'; inscribed with a handwritten description of media used (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
40 x 40in. (101.6 x 101.6cm.)
Painted in 1959
来源
André and Connie Emmerich Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1960).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 November 1993, lot 265 (incorrectly illustrated as lot 323A).
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Galeria Elvira González, Madrid.
Waddington Galleries, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 November 1993, lot 265 (incorrectly illustrated as lot 323A).
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Galeria Elvira González, Madrid.
Waddington Galleries, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001.
展览
London, Waddington Galleries, Josef Albers: Homage to the Square Paintings and Photographs (1928-1938), 2001, p. 54, no. 5 (illustrated in colour, p. 15).
更多详情
The work is registered in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Josef Albers as 1959.1.86.
荣誉呈献
Anna Touzin
Specialist, Head of Day Sale