Contemporary Curated

Josef Albers

Study to Homage to the Square: Protected Blue

Auction Closed

September 27, 07:30 PM GMT

Estimate

550,000 - 750,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Josef Albers

1888 - 1976

Study to Homage to the Square: Protected Blue

incised with the artist's monogram and dated 57 (lower right); signed, titled Study to Homage to the Square: "Protected Blue", dated 1957, and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on Masonite, in artist's frame

31 ⅞ by 31 ⅞ in.

81 by 81 cm.

Executed in 1957.

This work will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Josef Albers currently being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and is registered as 1957.1.48.

Galerie Denise René, Paris

Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York

Private Collection

Christie's London, 12 February 2010, lot 201 (consigned by the above)

Richard Green Gallery, London

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2011)

Sotheby's New York, 12 May 2016, lot 142 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Kunstverein Freiburg im Breisgau, Josef Albers. Zum 70. Geburtstag, March - April 1958, cat. no. 80

Berlin, Amerika Haus, Akademie der Künste, Josef Albers, May 1958, cat. no. 43

Zurich, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Josef Albers, January 1960, cat. no. 48