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Artist or Maker: Josef Albers (1888-1976)

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Description: Homage to the Square, Autumn Climax
signed with monogram and dated 'A63' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again '"Homage to the Square: Autumn Climax" Albers 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
48 1/2 x 48 1/2 in. (123.2 x 123.2 cm.)
Painted in 1963.

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Provenance: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978

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Exhibited: New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Paintings by Josef Albers, March 1963.
New York, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art; Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos and Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, Josef Albers: homenagem au quadrado, November-December 1964, no. 32.

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

"We are able to hear a single tone. But we almost never (that is without special devices) see a single color unrelated to changing neighbors and changing conditions" (Quoted in J. Albers, Interaction of Color, New Haven, 1971, p. 5)

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