- Artist
- Josef Albers 1888–1976
- Medium
- Oil paint on fibreboard
- Dimensions
- Support: 762 × 762 mm
frame: 780 × 780 × 30 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Anni Albers, the artist's widow and the Josef Albers Foundation 1978
- Reference
- T02312
Catalogue entry
T02312 Study for Homage to the Square 1964
Inscribed 'A64' b.r. and on back at top '6 x Liquit - Cobalt Green Lt (Shiva) next [this word has been crossed out, and 'yes' written underneath] Cobalt Green Lt (Rembrandt) - next [this word has again been crossed out and 'yes' written underneath] large permt Bright Green (Grumb. Inc) - I64'; also on back 'Ground: 6 coats of Liquitex (permt pigment) | painting: paints used - from center: | Cobalt Green Lt. (Shiva) | Cobalt Green Lt. (Rembrandt) | Permt Bright Green (Grumbacher Inc) | all in one primary coat | all directly from the tube | Varnish: VARNISH WITH BUTYL METHACRYLATE | POLYMER IN XYLENE DANIEL GOLDREYER LTD. APRIL 1964'
Oil on masonite panel, 30 x 30 (76.2 x 76.2)
Presented by Anni Albers and the Josef Albers Foundation 1978
Like T02311, this is of the B format. The colours, from the centre out, are Cobalt Green Light (Shiva), Cobalt Green Light (Rembrandt), and Permanent Bright Green (Grumbacher).
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.6-7, reproduced p.6
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