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Artist or Maker: Josef Albers (1888-1976)

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Provenance: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Mr & Mrs Frank H. Porter, Ohio (1967).
Their sale, Christie's New York, 11 November 2003, lot 11.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Notes: THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

'For me colour is my idiom. Its automatic. I'm not paying 'homage to the square'. It's only the dish I serve my craziness about colour in...All rendering of form, in fact all creative work moves between polarities: intuition and intellect, or possibly between subjectivity and objectivity. Their relative importance continually varies and they more or less always overlap...Colour, in my opinion, behaves like man - in two distinct ways: first in self-realisation and then in the realisation of relationships with others...In other words, one must combine both being an individual and being a member of society' (J. Albers, quoted in G. Alviani (ed.), Josef Albers, Milan 1988 pp. 235-236).

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