Study for a Variant

1947

not on display

Josef Albers1888 Bottrop – 1976 New Haven, CT

Also known as

Studie für eine Variation Study for a Variant Etude pour une variante

Medium

Oil on close knitted blotting paper

Dimensions

image: 42 x 56 cm

Inventory number

1994/0017

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation (Orange, Connecticut) in memory of Anne and Willy Rotzler, 1994

Signature

inscr. b. r.: A 47; on lower border: Colors from center: Yellow Ochre (perman. pigment= - Cadmium Orange (Pretested) - Cadmium Yellow Deep (Greco) - Gray 4 [...] 5+1 (Weber) - margin: Cobalt Green II. Deep (Shiva)

Inscriptions

Accession year

1994

Provenance

Josef Albers (*1888 Bottrop, +1976 New Haven CT) (Künstler/-in)
o.D. – 1994, The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation (Sammlung), Bethany CT
ab 1994, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk

About the provenance

State of research 01.01.2007 Do you have questions, criticism, suggestions, and further information? Please send us a message to provenienzforschung(at)kunsthaus.ch.

Literature (general)

- Die Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Christian Klemm, Sammlungskatalog Kunsthaus Zürich, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 270 (ill.). - Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 641.

Object type

painting

Classification

D 1[2] art 20th century worldwide

Keywords

Constructive art