Title:
I-S LXXIII A
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Medium: Prints, Serigraph / Screenprint, Color Screenprint
Year: 1973
Size: height - 28 in, width - 28 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, signed with initials in pencil, dated and numbered
Edition: 3/100
Foundry/Publisher: Ives-Sillman, pub.
Catalogue Raisonné: 218
Author: Danilowitz
Estimate: from $7,500 to $8,500
Seller's Description:
I-S LXXIII A, 1972
Color Screenprint
28 x 28 in. (71.1 x 71.1 cm.)
Editon: 3/100
Signed with initials in pencil, dated and numbered
This print is framed behind glass. It is in excellent condition.
Educated at the Bauhaus, Albers came to America during the second world war and left to head the Department of Design at Yale. He printed his first screenprints there, with the well-known Ives-Sillman, who printed with many influential painters at the time, including De Kooning.
Albers' simple, elegant works maintain their power as examples of the artist's doctrine "Homage to the Square" which revolutionized contemporary art, and were the precursors to Minimalism.
Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. He favored a very disciplined approach to composition. Most famous of all are the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square, which this print is a part of. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with flat colored squares.
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