LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on masonite

Measurements:

47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (height) by 47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with artist's monogram and dated 'A64' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Homage to the Square: "White Nimbus" Albers 1964' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, December 1967-February 1968, no. 1. Krefeld, Galerie Denise René-Hans Meyer, Spring 1967. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Josef Albers, A Retrospective, March-May 1988, p. 270, no. 227 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

P. Rylands ed., Hannelore B. and Rudolphe B. Schulhof Collection, New York, 2011, pp. 32-33, fig. 19 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1967.