Josef Albers

MMA-2
1970

Screenprint on Arches-paper

Image: 38 × 38 cm | 15 × 15 in
Sheet: 61,9 × 61,9 cm | 24 3/8 × 24 3/8 in

Signed, dated "70", titled and numbered "6/100" also at the lower margin "Easy to know that diamonds are precious good to learn that rubies have depth but more to see that pebbles are miraculous J.A." inscribed

Edition of 100 Printer: Sirocco Sreenprints, New Haven Editor: Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven for the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York Published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Catalogue Raisoné by Danilowitz 2010 no. 201

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Provenance

Privatsammlung Edward Pawlin, New York

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, "Josef Albers. Colors in Play", 5. März - 14. Mai 2022, Düsseldorf

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Josef Albers. Colors in Play", Düsseldorf 2022, S. 97
Brenda Danilowitz, „The Prints of Josef Albers. A Catalogue Raisonné 1915-1976“, Manchester 2010, Nr. 201

About Josef Albers

As a teacher at Bauhaus and Black Mountain Collage, Josef Albers is regarded as an important pioneer of Op Art and color field painting. His oeuvre imperceptibly influences the abstract and concrete art.