JOSEF ALBERS (BOTTROP 1888 - NEW HAVEN 1976) "Study for Homage to the Square: Full Tenor" 1959 oil on masonite cm 45.7x45.7 Signed and dated 59 lower right JAAF 1959.1.1 Inscribed on the reverse Provenance Josef Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut, USA, 1971 Private collection, Italy Galerie Christel, Stockholm Tommaso Fontana Collection, Rome Private collection Exhibitions ‘’Albers‘’ Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1962 ‘’Paintings by Josef Albers‘’ Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, 17 September – 13 October 1962 “New Paintings by Josef Albers”, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 4–30 March 1963 “3 interventi nello Spazio Astratto”, Galleria d'arte Medea, Milan, 18 October–18 November 1973, p.1, colour illustration in catalogue “Albers: A Collection of Paintings” Galerie Christel Stockholm, Stockholm, January–February 1980 “Josef Albers” John C. Stoller and Co., Minneapolis, 19 March–7 May 1982; Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, December 1982–15 January 1983; Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston “Josef Albers 1888–1976: Paintings from the ‘Homage to the Square’ series, Engraving plates and drawings from the ‘Structural Constellation’ series” Galerie Teufel, Cologne, 30 August – 22 November 1986, no. 11 in catalogue ‘’Abstraction, Création: Masters of Non-Figurative Art‘’ Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 8 August – 15 September 1987, no. 4 in the catalogue This work is registered under number 1959.1.1 in the Catalogue Raisonné of Josef Albers' paintings currently being prepared by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation