Josef Albers

Hommage au Carré

1964

A minimalist artwork featuring a series of three concentric squares with a white border. The innermost square is bright red, surrounded by a medium brown square, which is in turn surrounded by a darker brown square. The entire composition is centered on a white background.
A minimalist artwork featuring a series of three concentric squares with a white border. The innermost square is bright red, surrounded by a medium brown square, which is in turn surrounded by a darker brown square. The entire composition is centered on a white background.

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Date
1964

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/8 × 30in. (48.6 × 76.2 cm) Sheet (folded): 19 1/8 × 15in. (48.6 × 38.1 cm) Image: 11 1/16 × 11 1/16in. (28.1 × 28.1 cm)

Accession number
65.92.1

Edition
27/125

Publication
Printed by Atelier Arcay; published by Editions Denise René

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist

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

API
artworks/3420

Part of a series:
Hommage au Carre
15 works

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A minimalist artwork featuring a series of nested squares with a large green square surrounding a smaller blue square, all on a white background.
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A minimalist artwork featuring a series of three concentric squares with varying shades of gray and maroon, centered on a white background.
A minimalist artwork featuring a series of nested squares in shades of orange, gray, and black, centered on a white background.
A minimalist artwork featuring a series of three concentric squares, each a different color, with a yellow outer square, an orange middle square, and a red inner square, all on a white background.
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Josef Albers
123 works in the collection, 17 exhibitions

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