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An abstract oil painting of three squares nested from largest to smallest in blue, gray, and green.
An abstract oil painting of three squares nested from largest to smallest in blue, gray, and green.

Study to Homage to the Square: Remote

Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Object Details

  • Date

    1960

  • Object Type

    Paintings

  • Medium

    Oil on masonite

  • Dimensions

    23 15/16 x 23 7/8 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    signed and dated, l.r.: A60

    Verso:

    u.l. in black ink: 24 x 24

    u.r. in black ink: Study to \ Homage to the Square: \ "Remote" [underlined] \ Albers 1960

    u.c. on white label: sidney 15 east janis 57 street gallery new york 22 \ #8741 ALBERS Homage to the Square: Remote [underlined] 1960 \ Oil on board 24 x 24"

    c.r. in black ink: Ground: 6 coats of Liquitex (Pmt Pigment) \ Painting; paints used - from Center: \ Center: first Magna White (Bocour) \ then Pmt Bright Green (Grumbacher F) \ Cobalt Green (Lefebvre) \ Cerulean Blue (Winsor + Newton) \ all in one coat \ directly from the tube \ [illeg.] "Eonite"

    c.r. in white chalk: 3455-1 \ Johnson

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson

  • Accession Number

    2006.2

  • Copyright

    © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Additional details

Location: On view
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