Josef Albers

Hommage au Carré

1964

A bright red square centered inside two progressively darker brown squares on a white background.
A bright red square centered inside two progressively darker brown squares on a white background.

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Date
1964

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

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

Concentric squares in black, dark maroon, and gray centered on a white background.
Concentric squares with a black center, layered gray tones, and a rust outer square on white.
Concentric green and blue square blocks centered on a white background.
Concentric squares in varying shades of green and gray centered on a white background.
Concentric squares in yellow, orange, and red centered on a white background.
Three nested yellow squares centered on a white background forming a minimalist geometric composition.
Three concentric squares in blue, dark gray, and brown centered on a white background.
Concentric squares in yellow, peach, and orange stacked centrally on a white background.
Concentric squares in dark blue, medium blue, white, and gray centered on a white background.
Concentric squares in shades of yellow, orange, and brown centered on a white background.

Josef Albers
123 works in the collection, 18 exhibitions

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