Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
The Collector's Eye: Works from the Collection of Frances Wells Magee
Josef Albers
Rich Soil
Auction Closed
May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Collector's Eye: Works from the Collection of Frances Wells Magee
Josef Albers
1888 - 1976
Rich Soil
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 36 (lower right); signed Albers, titled and dated 1936 (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite, in artist's frame
21½ by 23½ in.
54.6 by 59.7 cm.
Executed in 1936.
Pinacotheca Gallery-Rose Fried, New York
Arundell Clarke, New York (acquired from the above in 1951)
Acquired from the above in 1958 by the present owner
Arundell Clarke, New York (acquired from the above in 1951)
Acquired from the above in 1958 by the present owner
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Josef Albers: New Paintings, February - March 1941
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Gallery; Northfield, Carleton College and St. Paul School of Art, Josef Albers, February - March 1938
Chicago, Katharine Kuh Gallery and Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Paintings by Josef Albers and E. Mistrik De Monda, September - November 1937
Bennington College; New York, Delphic Studios; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts; Aurora-on-Cayuga, Cayuga Museum of History & Art; Andover, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Chicago Arts Club; San Francisco Museum of Art and Madison, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Union, Four Painters: 74th Exhibition of the Société Anonyme, October 1936 - June 1937
New York, Pinacotheca, Josef Albers, circa fall 1936
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Gallery; Northfield, Carleton College and St. Paul School of Art, Josef Albers, February - March 1938
Chicago, Katharine Kuh Gallery and Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Paintings by Josef Albers and E. Mistrik De Monda, September - November 1937
Bennington College; New York, Delphic Studios; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts; Aurora-on-Cayuga, Cayuga Museum of History & Art; Andover, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Chicago Arts Club; San Francisco Museum of Art and Madison, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Union, Four Painters: 74th Exhibition of the Société Anonyme, October 1936 - June 1937
New York, Pinacotheca, Josef Albers, circa fall 1936