Lot 3646 - A207 Prints & Multiples - Thursday, 30. November 2023, 11.00 AM
JOSEF ALBERS
(Bottrop 1888–1976 New Haven)
GRAY INSTRUMENTATION I. 1974.
Portfolio with 12 colour screenprints, title, imprint and 6 texts by Josef Albers. 36/36. Each signed in pencil lower right: Albers, also titled and numbered lower left: GRAY INSTRUMENTATION Ia-Il. Also numbered in the imprint: 36/36. With the stamp on the reverse: COPYRIGHT JOSEF ALBERS 1974 JA + number. Image 28 × 28 cm on wove paper by Arches 88 48.2 × 48.2 cm. Title, texts and imprint on Japan paper. Published and printed by Tyler Workshop, New York (with the blindstamp).
With separate folder. In original box and original slipcase. Complete.
With separate folder. In original box and original slipcase. Complete.
Catalogue raisonné: Danilowitz, no. 225.
"To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing." Josef Albers
"To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing." Josef Albers
CHF 30 000 / 40 000 | (€ 30 930 / 41 240)
Sold for CHF 75 000 (including buyer’s premium)
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