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Property From a Private German Collector JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE "PROPOSED"...

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Property From a Private German Collector JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE  PROPOSED ...
Property From a Private German Collector
JOSEF ALBERS
(1888-1976)
HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE "PROPOSED"
signed with artist's monogram and dated "A66" lower edge; signed, titled, inscribed and dated "Homage to the Square 'Proposed' Albers 1966" with color annotations on the reverse
oil on masonite
40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
executed in 1966
ESTIMATE: $120,000-180,000

PROVENANCE
Sidney Janis Gallery, NEW YORK
Galerie Denise René, PARIS
Elisabeth Krancke Gallery, KNOKKE
Galerie Hadrien Thomas, Paris
Galerie Elke Dröscher, HAMBURG
Dany Keller Gallery, Munich
Seeing several of these paintings next to each other
Makes it obvious that each painting
Is an instrumentation in its own.
This means that they all are of different palettes,
And, therefore, so to speak, of different climates.
Choice of the colors used, as well as their order, is
Aimed at an interaction-
Influencing and changing each other forth and back.
Thus, character and feeling alter from painting to painting
Without any additional "hand writing"
Or, so-called, texture.
Though the underlying symmetrical and quasi-concentric
Order of squares remains the same in all paintings
-in proportion and placement-
these same squares group or single themselves,
connect and separate in many different ways.
In consequence, they move forth and back, in and out,
And grow up and down and near and far, as well as enlarged and diminished.
All this, to proclaim color autonomy
As a means of plastic organization
Josef Albers, "On my Homage to the Square," JOSEF ALBERS: HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE, NEW YORK, 1964, n.p.