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PROPERTY FROM THE LOCKSLEY SHEA GALLERY

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Josef Albers

Study for Homage to the Square: “Dimmed Center”

Estimate
$150,000 - 200,000
$245,000
Lot Details
oil on masonite
18 x 18 in. (45.7 x 45.7 cm)
Initialed and dated "A61" lower right; further signed, titled and dated "Study for Homage to the Square: 'Dimmed Center' Albers' 1961" on the reverse; further signed by the Executive Director of the Albers Foundation on certification label affixed to the reverse.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Josef Albers Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by The Anni and Josef Albers Foundation and is registered at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation as JAAF 1961.1.49.
Catalogue Essay
"We are able to hear a single tone. But we almost never (that is without special devices) see a single color unrelated to changing neighbors and changing conditions" Josef Albers, 1971

Josef Albers

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