Josef Albers

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
The Mayor Gallery, London
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Caracas, Galería Mendoza; Montevideo, Centro de Artes y Letras; Buenos Aires, Instituto Torcuato di Tella; Lima, Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo; Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos; São Paulo, Museu de Arte Contemporãnea; Guayaquil, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana; Quito, Ecuadorian-American Center; Bogota, Bi-National Center; Santiago Museo de Arte Contemporáneo; Mexico City, Museo de Arte y Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Knoxville, Dulin Gallery of Art; Huntington, Huntington Galleries; New York, The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Oswego, New York, State University College; Atlanta, Atlanta Art Association; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Chattanooga, Tennessee, George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Wisconsin, Madison Art Center; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Kansas, Wichita Art Museum, Josef Albers: Homage to the Square, 1964-67
Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Josef Albers, 1970, no. 60
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Josef Albers, 1971-72, no. 52
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Albers, 1986, no. 22
London, The Mayor Gallery; Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Josef Albers, 1989, p. 79, illustrated in colour

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the second square has fewer magenta undertones in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals extremely light rubbing to the lower left and upper right corners. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals some isolated spots of retouching within the second square.
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“A painter wants to formulate with or in color. Some painters regard color as concomitant of form, and hence as subordinate. For others, and an ever-increasing proportion, color is the chief medium of their pictorial language. Here color attains autonomy. My paintings represent the second trend. I am particularly interested in the psychic effect, an aesthetic experience that is evoked by the interaction of juxtaposed colors.”

JOSEF ALBERS
quoted in: Eugen Gomringer, Josef Albers, New York 1967, p. 104