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Josef Albers serigraph | Homage to the Square
Josef Albers silkscreen, Albers Homage to the Square


 
$250.00


Item Code: 2997

Description
 
Medium: silkscreen / serigraph (after the original). Printed in Germany by Atelier Herbert Geier and published in 1968 by George Wittenborn of New York, for a now very scarce catalogue raisonne. Image size: 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (225 x 225 mm). Including the border, the total sheet size: 10 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (267 x 250 mm). There is another composition on the back, as issued. A rich impression in electric color. Not signed.

Josef Albers started to explore his Homage to the Square theme in 1949. Constructed on precise mathematical formulae, there is a meditative quality to these simple yet powerful works, and they are among the most easily recognized icons of modern art.