July Antiques, Art & Collectibles Auction
Lot 195:
Joseph Albers Study for Homage to the Square, 2003 Posthumous authorized copy right silk screen print by SABAM of Belgium Editions ACT III ALB 432 Belgique. A rich impression on wove paper laid on acid free archival board and housed in plexi glass frame. Measurements 29 inches by 29 inches.About the artist: Josef Albers was born on March 19, 1888 and passed on March 25, 1976.He was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States.Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked as a schoolteacher from 1908 to 1913 and received his first public commission in 1918 and moved to Munich in 1919.Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker, and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. He favored a very disciplined approach to composition, especially in the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with nested squares. Usually painting on Masonite, he used a palette knife with oil colors and often recorded the colors he used on the back of his works. Each painting consists of either three or four squares of solid planes of color nested within one another, in one of four different arrangements and in square formats ranging from 406×406 mm to 1.22×1.22 m
Condition: Good read to hang condition, Not a signed edition and a Posthumous authorized print by sabam Belgium. please attend the auction preview in our showroom or review all the posted images and emails us all your concerns before placing your valued bidding.
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