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Catalog Data

Artist:
Josef Albers, American, b. Bottrop, Germany, 1888–1976  Search this
Medium:
Acrylic on fiberboard
Dimensions:
48 x 96 in. (121.9 x 243.7 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1973
Provenance:
The artist and Estate of the artist, Orange, Connecticut, 1973-79
Gift of the Josef Albers Foundation, Inc. and Anni Albers, Orange, Connecticut, 7 May 1979
Exhibition History:
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Josef Albers," 27 September 1979-23 March 1980, no cat.
IVAM CENTRE JULIO GONZALEZ, Valencia, Spain. "Josef Albers: Glass, Color, and Light," 3 November 1994-8 January 1995.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration," 13 February-11 April 2010, no cat.
Published References:
DETAILLE, EDOUARD and WILLEM VAN ROIJ. You Can Go Anywhere: The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50 (Dijon, France: Les presses du réel, 2021), color ill. p. 155.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Josef Albers Foundation and Anni Albers, 1979
Accession Number:
79.12
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School:
Geometric Abstraction
Data Source:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py205c21558-e0d6-49d7-9df6-3778a82b3774
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:hmsg_79.12