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Lot 406 R

Josef Albers - Homage to the Square

Auction 1079 - overview Cologne
03.12.2016, 14:00 - Contemporary Art
Estimate: 300.000 € - 500.000 €
Result: 676.000 € (incl. premium)

Josef Albers

Homage to the Square
1962

Oil on Masonite. 101 x 101 cm. Framed. Monogrammed and dated 'A62' (scratched). - Some crackling.

“Thanks to their picture composition in the ratio of 1:2:3, the Homages keep their feet on the ground while their heads are in the clouds. The central or first square is like a seed: the heart of things, the innermost, from which everything else radiates. The segments below this square, which are components of two or three larger squares striving outwards, double their width to the left and to the right and triple it towards the top. For example, in a picture composition of four squares that are 10 units high and 10 units wide, the width of the central square is four units while each of the outer squares measure half a unit on the underside, one unit on the left and on the right, and one and a half units at the top”. (Nicholas Fox Weber, Der Künstler als Alchimist, Josef Albers, exhib.cat. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden und Bauhaus Archiv Berlin, 1988, p. 41).

Catalogue Raisonné

This work will be included in the forthcoming Josef Albers Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut.

Certificate

The present work is registered in The Josef Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut (with label verso)

Provenance

Hete Hünermann Galerie, Dusseldorf; Galerie Denise René, Paris (each label verso)

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf 2007 (Museum Kunstpalast), Die Kunst zu Sammeln, Das 20./21. Jahrhundert in Düsseldorfer Privat- und Unternehmensbesitz, exhib.cat., p.6, p.118 with col.ill., p.180