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Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Veiled
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Josef Albers
1888 - 1976
Homage to the Square: Veiled
signed with the artist’s monogram and dated 61 (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1961 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
121.9 by 121.9 cm. 48 by 48 in.
Executed in 1961.
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 under JAAF 1961.1.118.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Galerie Denise René, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired from the above in 1974)
Christie’s, Paris, 10 July 2020, lot 25 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Albers, October 1961, no. 31, n.p.
Essen, Folkwang Museum, Josef Albers, February – March 1963, no. 31, n.p.
Copenhagen, Galleri Hybler, Josef Albers, October 1963
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Initialgesten, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malewitsch, Josef Albers, Tom Doyle, October – November 1964, no. 160, n.p.
Paris, Galerie Denise René, L'Idée et la Matière, December 1974, n.p.