a white drawing of two intersecting shapes on a green background
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54 - Concrete Art Albers, Josef White Embossing on Grey VI. 1971.…
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Concrete Art Albers, Josef White Embossing on Grey VI. 1971. Etching on handmade paper. 59 x 39.5 cm (66.5 x 51.5 cm). Signed and numbered. With the blind stamp of Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. – A magnificent, fresh print with a velvety, even colour surface; the embossing is precise and sharp. Danilowitz 204. – The work forms part of a group of prints created by Josef Albers in 1971 under the series title ‘White Embossings on Gray (WEG)’. In this series, he works with line-cut and embossing: the white lines do not appear as colour, but as an embossed, slightly relief-like texture in the paper against a grey background. In terms of content, “WEG IV” ties in with Albers’ investigations into geometric solids and so-called “indicating solids” – which he had been pursuing since his Bauhaus years – that is, line formations that merely suggest three-dimensional cuboids and allow them to be optically tilted. The extreme reduction is characteristic: instead of the familiar colour fields from “Homage to the Square”, Albers uses here exclusively line, grey and the tactile quality of the paper to explore perception. Etching on handmade paper. Signed and numbered. With the blindstamp of Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. – A magnificent, fresh print with a velvety, even colour surface; the embossing is precise and sharp. The work belongs to a group of prints that Josef Albers created in 1971 under the series title ‘White Embossings on Gray (WEG)’. In this series, he employs line-cut and embossing techniques: the white lines do not appear as colour, but as an embossed, slightly raised structure in the paper against a grey background. In terms of content, “WEG IV” ties in with Albers’ investigations into geometric solids and so-called “indicating solids”—that is, line formations that merely suggest three-dimensional cubes and create an optical illusion of tilting—which he had been pursuing since his Bauhaus years. A characteristic feature is the extreme reduction: instead of the familiar colour fields from “Homage to the Square”, Albers uses here exclusively line, grey and the tactile quality of the paper to explore perception. *This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard margin scheme. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is charged on the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) is charged on the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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