Josef Albers

Folio I / Folder 21
1972

An open book displaying two pages with abstract geometric art. The left page features a light background with an arrangement of horizontal lines and small rectangles in a grayscale color palette. The right page has a dark background with similar geometric shapes, including a prominent white outline of a window-like structure. The artwork plays with visual balance and contrast between light and dark elements.
An open book displaying two pages with abstract geometric art. The left page features a light background with an arrangement of horizontal lines and small rectangles in a grayscale color palette. The right page has a dark background with similar geometric shapes, including a prominent white outline of a window-like structure. The artwork plays with visual balance and contrast between light and dark elements.

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Date
1972

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 15 × 40in. (38.1 × 101.6 cm) Image (Left): 13 × 13 1/8in. (33 × 33.3 cm) Image (Right): 12 × 13 3/8in. (30.5 × 34 cm)

Accession number
93.113.21

Edition
938/1000Edition: 1000

Publication
Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc.; published by Ives-Sillman, Inc.; published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Stephen L. and Linda G. Singer

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

API
artworks/16725

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Formulation: Articulation

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