Josef Albers - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    The Estate of Josef Albers
    The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (by 1976)
    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
    Edward Totah Gallery, London
    Galerie Arditti, Paris
    Private Collection, Palm Beach
    Private Collection
    Sotheby’s, Paris, June 7, 2016, lot 15
    Private Collection, France (acquired at the above sale)
    Karl & Faber Kunstauktionen GmbH, Munich, December 9, 2021, lot 332
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, University of Southern California; Berkeley, University of California; Detroit, General Motors Styling Center, Interaction of Color: A Presentation of Paintings and the Color Theory of Josef Albers, June 14, 1963–February 28, 1964
    Hartford, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, The Art of Josef Albers, April 19–May 7, 1965, no. 22
    London, Waddington Galleries, Josef Albers Paintings, April 1–May 2, 2009, lot 21, pp. 48–49, 55 (illustrated, p. 49)
    Dusseldorf, Galerie Ludorff, Josef Albers: Colors in Play, March 5–May 14, 2022, pp. 44–49 (illustrated, p. 47)

153

Study for Homage to the Square: Oracle

signed with the artist's monogram and dated "A61" lower right; signed, titled, variously inscribed and dated "Study for Homage to the Square "Oracle" Albers 1961" on the reverse
oil on Masonite
32 x 32 in. (81.3 x 81.3 cm)
Painted in 1961, this work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Estimate
$250,000 - 350,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024