Josef Albers (American/German, 1888–1976)

LOT ID: 72644

I-S g, 1971

Serigraph / Screenprint, on heavy German etching paper

21 х 21 in. cm.

Signed, and dated in pencil, lower right; titled and numbered 112/125 in pencil lower left; Publishers' blindstamp lower right

Edition 125

Foundry/Publisher Ives-Sillman, INc.

Lot description

This is a quintessential Op Art color screenprint on German Etching paper from the early 1970s. Silkscreen has full margins, with the sheet measuring 21 square inches, and the image measuring 13.7 square inches. It was printed at Sirocco Screenprints, New Haven, and published by Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven. A superb impression with bright, impressive colors. The work is unframed, but is accompanied, separately, by a board with the original provenance of DeVorzon Gallery, Los Angeles.

German-born artist Josef Albers (1888-1976) is known for his contributions as a painter, designer, writer, and teacher. Having taught at the Bauhaus until its forced closure by the Nazis in 1933, Albers was notably fluent in stained glass, typography, and furniture design. The artist’s affinity for square forms, as opposed to other geometrical shapes, arose from his belief in its emphasis on the man-made as set apart from the natural and apart from art emulating nature.

From 1949 until his death in 1976, Josef Albers created a series of works titled Homage to the Square. These works explore the artist's fascination with how colors look when seen one at a time and how they appear in different combinations.

In his writings on color theory, Albers noted that the way we experience color varies based on our individual personalities and on factors such as hue, dimension, and placement. The square was a perfect form because of its simplicity. Albers believed that such a common shape would not distract viewers from their experience of color. A pioneer of modernism, Albers integrated European artistic conventions with new American hard-edged abstraction.

As an influential professor at Black Mountain and Yale University, he is credited with inspiring a generation of artists including Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg and Eva Hesse. Richard Anuszkiewicz, in particular, singularly - and genersously - credits Josef Albers with teaching him everything he knew about color, and 'converting' him from realism to Op Art while Anuszkiewicz studied with him at Yale under a Pulitzer traveling fellowship.

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DeVorzon Gallery, Los Angeles
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LOT ID: 72644

I-S g, 1971