Asta: 541 / Contemporary Art Day Sale del 09 giugno 2023 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 135


135
Josef Albers
6 Bll.: Homage to the Square, 1970.
The portfolio comprising sixSilkscreen in color...
Stima:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,750
Risultato:
€ 48,260 / $ 51,638

( commissione inclusa)
6 Bll.: Homage to the Square. 1970.
The portfolio comprising sixSilkscreen in colors and the tible sheet, imprint and introduction, in orig. case. Each color silkscreen loose in orig. wrapper with typogr. inscription.
Danilowitz 203. Each print monogrammed, dated, numbered, inscribed "E K" and with the consecutive number. Imprint once more numbered. From an edition of 125 copies. On Hahnemühle wove paper (each with watermark). 35 x 35 cm (13.7 x 13.7 in). Sheet: 55 x 55 cm (21,6 x 21,6 in).

The six sheets "Ib", "Id", "If", "Ig", "Ih" and "Ik" of the portfolio "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller Ia-Ik", comprising a total of ten sheets. Published by Josef Keller Verlag, Starnberg, within the scope of the project planned by Eugen Gomringer as Edition Keller I, Starnberg 1970. Printed by Herbert Geier, Ingolstadt, on paper that Hahnemühle in Dassel had exclusively made for the portfolio. [AW].

• Timeless color silkscreens in fine colors from the iconic series "Homage to the Square".
• Albers was both student and teacher at the influential Bauhaus.
• Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg were among his students at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
• Works from this series are in renowned museums like the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, or the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main
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PROVENANCE: Johannes Geccelli Estate.




135
Josef Albers
6 Bll.: Homage to the Square, 1970.
The portfolio comprising sixSilkscreen in color...
Stima:
€ 25,000 / $ 26,750
Risultato:
€ 48,260 / $ 51,638

( commissione inclusa)