Study for a Homage to the Square

Prints and Drawings

1967/68

Josef Albers
American, born Germany, 1888-1976

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Josef Albers
Title: Study for a Homage to the Square
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1967–1968
Medium: Oil paint on white wove paper
Dimensions: 28.6 × 28.6 cm (11 5/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family
Reference Number: 2023.3436

Getulio Alviani (editor), Josef Albers (Milan: L’Arcaedizioni, 1988), p. 131, fig. 197.

Sold, Christie’s London, Dec. 6 1985, lot 76. Sold, Christie’s London, Dec. 3, 1987, lot 1126. Edward Totah Gallery, London, by 1988 [according to Albers Foundation correspondence of Nov. 7, 2023]. Private collection; offered at Bonhams, London, Dec. 11, 2008, lot 52 [not sold]. Sold, Blindarte, Naples, May 26, 2009, lot 351 [according to Albers Foundation correspondence of Nov. 7, 2023]. Private collection, Naples [according to Albers Foundation correspondence of Nov. 7, 2023]. Sold, Dorotheum, Vienna, Nov. 27 2013, lot 942. Sold by Alan Cristea Gallery, London, to Irving Stenn Jr., Chicago, Mar. 11, 2014; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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