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Josef Albers

Prefatio, 1942
Lithograph on Serie Whitewove paper
19 x 24 (48.2 x 61 cm)
Edition of 30
© 2023 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Zeit Contemporary Art, New York
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Image: 11 5/8 x 15 3/4 in (29.5 x 40 cm) Sheet: 19 x 24 (48.2 x 61 cm) Titled, numbered, signed and dated in pencil, from the edition of...
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Image: 11 5/8 x 15 3/4 in (29.5 x 40 cm)
Sheet: 19 x 24 (48.2 x 61 cm)

Titled, numbered, signed and dated in pencil, from the edition of 30.

Other proofs of this important lithograph are housed in the esteemed collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., and MACBA in Barcelona, Spain.
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Provenance

Private collection, United States
Private collection, New York

Literature

Brenda Danilowitz. The prints of Josef Albers: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1915-1976. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 2001, cat. no. 103 (another example illustrated).

Brenda Danilowitz and Jeannette Redensek. Josef Albers: Discovery and Invention, The Early Graphic Works. London: Art/Books, Cristea Roberts Gallery, 2021, p. 116 (another example illustrated).


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