Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from an Important Private Collection
Josef Albers
Homage to the Square: Polar
Auction Closed
October 12, 06:59 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Josef Albers
1888 - 1976
Homage to the Square: Polar
signed with the artist's initials and dated 63 (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1963 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
101.6 by 101.6 cm.
40 by 40 in.
Executed in 1963.
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 JAAF 1963.1.43.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1967)
Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Albers: Homage to the Square, September – October 1964, n.p. (text)
Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery and Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Serial Imagery, September 1968 – February 1969, no. 61, n.p. (text)