Josef Albers 'Variant' 2010 Offset Print, Framed, Gallery Ready
By Josef Albers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Front of postcard features Josef Albers "Variant" and the back features Ken Price's "Pink Interior".
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Variant II, from 10 variants, 1966 Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Josef Albers Variant II, from 10 Variants 1966 Screenprint on rives BFK paper 17 x 17 in.
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Variant VII, from 10 variants, 1966 Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Josef Albers (1888-1976, German American ) Variant VII, from Ten Variants 1966 Screenprint on rives BFK paper 17 x 17 in.
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Variant III /// Bauhaus Abstract Geometric Minimalism Josef Albers Screenprint
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "Variant III" Portfolio: Ten Variants *Unsigned edition Year: 1967 Medium: Original Screenprint on Rives BFK paper Limited ed...
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$3,000
Variant II /// Josef Albers Abstract Geometric Screenprint Minimalism Bauhaus
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Numbered in ink lower center on verso of portfolio sleeve folder. Comes from Albers' 1967 "Ten Variants" portfolio of ten screenprints, (Danilowitz Nos. 173.1-173.10, page 118-120).
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Variant - P1, F30, I1, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Portfolio 1, Folder 30, Image 1 Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edit...
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Variant - P1, F11, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Variant - P1, F11, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972 Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition of 1000 Image Size: 11.5 ...
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Variant I /// Josef Albers Abstract Geometric Screenprint Minimalism Bauhaus Art
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Numbered in ink lower center on verso of portfolio sleeve folder. Comes from Albers' 1967 "Ten Variants" portfolio of ten screenprints, (Danilowitz Nos. 173.1-173.10, page 118-120).
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Variant - P1, F17, I1, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Variant - P1, F17, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972 Screenprint Edition of 1000 Image Size: 8.5 x 17 inches Size: 15 x 20 in. (38.1...
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Variant - P1, F28, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Variant - P1, F28, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972 Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition of 1000 Image Size: 12.5...
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Variant - P1, F11, I1, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Variant - P1, F11, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972 Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition of 1000 Image Size: 11.5 ...
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Variant - P2, F29, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition: 972/1000 Image Size: 9 x 14...
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Variant - P2, F9, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant - P2, F9, I2 Year: 1972 Edition size: 1000 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Image: 12 x 13.5 inches Siz...
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Variant - P2, F29, I1, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition Size: 1000 Image Size: 9 x 1...
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Variant - P1, F17, I2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original silkscreens that are a definitive survey of the artist...
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MMA-3 Variant /// Josef Albers Abstract Geometric Screenprint Color Field Theory
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "MMA-3 Variant" Series: MMA (Metropolitan Museum of Art) *Unsigned edition Year: 1970 Medium: Original Screenprint on Mohawk ...
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$1,500
G-Clef Variant - P1, F16, I2, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original silkscreens that are a definitive survey of the artis...
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$1,500
G-Clef Variant - P1, F16, I1, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation (Double Portfolio) Title: G-Cleft Variation - P1, F16, I1 Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper E...
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$12,000
I-S Va 6, from Six Variants, 1969 Silkscreen by Josef Albers Abstract Minimalism
By Josef Albers
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Josef Albers I-S Va 6, from Six Variants 1969 Silkscreen 28 x 36 in.
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Variant - P1, F30, I2, Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
In an excellent white contemporary frame. Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristo...
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Variant - P1, F28, I1, Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
In an excellent white contemporary frame. Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio I, Folio 28, Image 1 from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation Yea...
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Variant - P2, F18, I1, Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
In an excellent white contemporary frame. Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Portfolio 2, Folder 18, Image 1 Year: 1972 Medium: Screen...
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Variant - P2, F9, I1, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio 2, Folio 9 , Image 1 from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation Year: 1972 Edition size: 1000 Medium: Screenpri...
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Variant FI-F17-II
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Josef Albers Variant FI-F17-II, 1972 Screenprint on Mowhalk Superfine Bristol paper 15 × 20 in 38.1 × 50.8 cm Edition 980/1000 Printed by Sirocco Printers Published by Ives Sillman...
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Variant FI-F17-I
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Josef Albers Variant FI-F17-I, 1972 Screenprint on Mowhalk Superfine Bristol paper 15 × 20 in 38.1 × 50.8 cm Edition 980/1000 Printed by Sirocco Printers Published by Ives Sillmann...
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Variant IV from Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in grays and blues from Josef Albers Ten Variants. Printed on Rives BFK paper, with full margins, portfolio 212 of edition of 300, published by Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Ha...
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Variant III from Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in grays, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins, portfolio 212 of edition of 300 published by Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven with their blind stamp in lower right corner o...
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Variant VII from Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint on Rives BFK paper, with full margins, portfolio 212 of edition of 300 published by Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven with their blind stamp in lower right corner of margin. ...
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Variant II from Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint on Rives BFK paper, with full margins, portfolio 212 of edition of 300 published by Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven with their blind stamp in lower right corner of margin. ...
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VARIANTS - PI-F17
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant - PI-F17 Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition Size: 980/1000 Sheet Size: 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8cm) Printe...
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Variant PII-F9
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant PII-F9 Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition Size: 980/1000 Sheet Size: 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8cm) Printer:...
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Variant PII-F18
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant PII-F18 Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition Size: 980/1000 Sheet Size: 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8cm) Printer...
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Variant PII-F9
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant PII-F9 Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition Size: 980/1000 Sheet Size: 15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8cm) Printer:...
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from Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in Bethesda, MD
1966 Color screenprint 17" x 17" 19 1/4" x 19 1/4" framed ed. 200 Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United Stat...
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from Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in Bethesda, MD
1966 Color screenprint 17" x 17" 19 1/4" x 19 1/4" framed ed. 200 Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United Stat...
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I - S Va 2 from Six VARIANTS
By Josef Albers
Located in Bethesda, MD
Screenprint in colors 21 1/2'' x 29 7/8'' 30" x 38" framed ed. 150 Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United Stat...
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"Variant IV (From Ten Variants) by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Hinsdale, IL
JOSEF ALBERS Variant IV (From Ten Variants.) Color screenprint on Rives BFK white wove paper, c.1966.
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H 17.38 in W 17.38 in
Variant VI /// Josef Albers Bauhaus Abstract Geometric Minimalism Screenprint
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "Variant VI" Portfolio: Ten Variants *Unsigned edition Year: 1967 Medium: Original Screenprint on Rives BFK paper Limited edi...
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IS VA I
By Josef Albers
Located in Toronto, Ontario
This series of six "Variants" was executed in a much larger size than the previous "Ten Variants" Albers continued his creative relationship with Ives-Sillman, with whom he had be...
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Variant VII, from: Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in London, GB
JOSEF ALBERS 1888 - 1976 Bottrop, Germany 1888 - 1976 New Haven, USA (German / American) Title: Variant VII, from: Ten Variants, 1967.
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Variant IV
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original screenprint on Rives BFK paper by German-American artist Josef Albers (1888-1976) titled "Variant IV, 1967. Issued unsigned.
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Variant VI
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, dated and editioned in pencil by the artist. Edition: 200 of which this is numbered 96/200 From the series: Ten Variants Publisher: Ives-Sillman, New Haven, ...
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Variant VIII
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist Edition: 200 of which this is numbered 96/200 From the series: Ten Variants Publisher: Ives-Sillman, New Haven,...
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Variant V
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist Edition: 200 of which this is numbered 96/200 From the series: Ten Variants Publisher: Ives-Sillman, New Haven,...
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Variant II
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist Edition: 200 of which this is numbered 96/200 From the series: Ten Variants Publisher: Ives-Sillman, New Haven,...
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Variant X
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist Edition: 200 of which this is numbered 96/200 From the series: Ten Variants Publisher: Ives-Sillman, New Haven, CT P...
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Variant IX
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist Edition: 200 of which this is numbered 96/200 From the series: Ten Variants Publisher: Ives-Sillman, New Haven,...
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VARIANT MMA-3
By Josef Albers
Located in Toronto, Ontario
While Josef Albers is synonymous with his influential "Homage to the Square" series, his "Variant" motif is his other highly sought after and super iconic work.
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Variant - P1, F17, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Variant - P1, F17, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972 Screenprint Edition of 1000 Image Size: 8.5 x 17 inches Size: 15 x 20 in. (38.1...
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Variant - P1, F17, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original silkscreens that are a definitive survey of the artist...
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H 7 in W 5.813 in
Untitled: Homage to the Square (Unique Color Variant Peach, Yellow, Gold)
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From Formulations: Articulation (33 screenprints in 2 Folios) Edition: 1000 sets This impression is a printer's proof, outside the published edition from the collection of the publ...
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H 11.75 in W 11.5 in
Untitled:Homage to the Square (Unique Color Variant: Blue, Green, light green)
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: Formulation: Articulation (33 screenprints in two Folios) This impression is a printer's proof, outside the published edition from the collection of the publisher, Norman Ives....
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H 8.5 in W 5.313 in
Untitled: Homage to the Square (Unique Color Variant Red, Orange, Light Orange)
By Josef Albers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
This impression is a printer's proof, outside the published edition from the collection of the publisher, Norman Ives. Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, New Haven, CT Published by ...
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H 10 in W 14 in D 0.75 in
Josef Albers 'Variant' 2010 Offset Print, Framed, Gallery Ready
By Josef Albers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Front of postcard features Josef Albers "Variant" and the back features Ken Price's "Pink Interior".
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H 17.5 in W 22.5 in D 1 in
Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio I, Folio 11 , Image 2 from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation Year: 1972 Edition size: 1000 Medium: Silkscre...
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H 19.5 in W 24.5 in
Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio I, Folio 11 , Image 2 from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation Year: 1972 Edition size: 1000 Medium: Silkscre...
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H 18 in W 22.5 in D 2 in
Variant from the Formulation: Articulation by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen Edition: 972/1000 Image Size: 9 x 14 inches Paper Size: 15 x 20 inches ...
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H 19.5 in W 24.5 in D 2 in
Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio I, Folio 11 , Image 2 from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation Year: 1972 Edition size: 1000 Medium: Silkscre...
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H 19.5 in W 24.5 in
Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio 2, Folio 9 , Image 1 from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation Year: 1972 Edition size: 1000 Medium: Silkscree...
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H 19.5 in W 24.5 in D 2 in
Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio I, Folio 11 , Image 2 from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation Year: 1972 Edition size: 1000 Medium: Silkscre...
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H 20 in W 24 in
Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation (Double Portfolio) Title: Portfolio 1, Folder 11, Image 1 Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen Edition: 1000 Paper Size: 15 x 20 in...
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H 20 in W 24 in
Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation (Double Portfolio) Title: Portfolio 1, Folder 11, Image 1 Year: 1972 Medium: Silkscreen Edition: 1000 Paper Size: 15 x 20 in...
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Variant VIII, from "Ten Variants"
By Josef Albers
Located in London, GB
JOSEF ALBERS 1888 - 1976 Bottrop, Germany 1888 - 1976 New Haven, USA (German / American) Title: Variant VIII, from "Ten Variants", 1967.
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Variant
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Josef Albers (German-American, b. 1888) From Josef Albers' 1972 portfolio 'Formulation: Articulation,' this print has geometric patterns layering hues of salmon, orange, blue, and bl...
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Variant V
By Josef Albers
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original screenprint on Rives BFK paper by German-American artist Josef Albers (1888-1976) titled "Variant V", 1967. Issued unsigned.
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Variant - P1, F11, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Variant - P1, F11, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972 Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edition of 1000 Image Size: 11.5 ...
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Variant - P1, F30, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Portfolio 1, Folder 30, Image 1 Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Edit...
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Variant - P1, F17, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental series consists of 127 original silkscreens that are a definitive survey of the artist...
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Variant V
By Josef Albers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Variant V from 10 Variants
Ten Variants Portfolio
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Edition 200. Portfolio of 10 prints.
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Ten Variants
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Medium: The complete set of 10 screenprints Sheet size: 17 x 17 inches, each Printer: Sirocco Screenprints, New Haven Publisher: Ives Sillman, Inc., New Haven Catalogue raisonné: Dan...
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H 16 in W 22.88 in
Untitled (One Cent Life) /// Joan Mitchell Female Artist Abstract Expressionism
By Joan Mitchell
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992) Title: "Untitled" (Page 92-93) Portfolio: One Cent Life *Unsigned edition Year: 1964 Medium: Original Lithograph on wove paper Limited edi...
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The German-born American painter, writer, and educator Josef Albers was a pioneer of 20th century modernism, and an innovative practitioner of color theory. With his wife, the textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers (1899–1994), he shaped the development of a generation of American artists and designers through his teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and later at Yale University School of Art, where he was the chairman of the department of design from 1950–1958. Albers is widely known for his series of prints and paintings "Homages to the Square," which he created between 1950 and 1975. His influential volume on color theory The Interaction of Color was published in 1963.
Albers was born in Bottrop, Germany, and as a young man he studied art education, earning certification from the Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin in 1915. He entered the legendary Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1920. The Bauhaus had been established by Walter Gropius in 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, with the hope that its innovative curriculum would foster connections between architecture, art, and traditional crafts. In 1923 Albers began teaching the Vorkurs, the introductory class in which new students learned to work with each of the key artists’ materials, along with color theory, composition, construction and design.
Albers was a polymath, and the multidisciplinary environment of the Bauhaus was fertile ground for his artistic ambitions. When the school moved from Weimar to Dessau in 1925, he became a full professor, and in addition to glass and metal, he designed typefaces and furniture. While at the Bauhaus, Albers drew inspiration from the work of his colleagues, the color theorist Johannes Itten, and the painter, photographer, and designer László Moholy-Nagy, with whom he co-taught the Vorkurs.
In 1933, the Bauhaus was shut down due to pressure from the Nazi Party, which perceived the school as being sympathetic to communist intellectuals. As Albers’ wife Anni was Jewish, the couple resolved to leave Germany, and settled in rural North Carolina. The architect Philip Johnson helped make arrangements for Albers to join the faculty of Black Mountain College as the head of the painting program, where he remained until 1949. While at Black Mountain, both Josef and Anni Albers became influential mentors to American artists including Ruth Asawa, Cy Twombly, and Robert Rauschenberg, while working alongside fellow professors Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and William de Kooning.
In 1950, Albers joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art where he would head the newly established Department of Design until his retirement in 1958. In the 1950s, the Alberses began taking trips to Mexico, where the colors and forms of the local art and architecture inspired both artists.
In 1971, Albers became the first living artist whose work was the subject of a solo retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though they worked in different mediums, Josef and Anni Albers’ work shares a fascination with color and geometry. Josef Albers’ compositions from the "Homages to the Square" series, such as Formulation: Articulation Portfolio II Folder 28 (B), from 1972, give deceptively simple shapes a novel vibrance as colors play off of one another. The hues in Articulation Portfolio II Folder 28 (B) work in concert to give the flat surface the distinct appearance of a tunnel or other three-dimensional space; while the form on the left appears to move towards the viewer, the form on the right seems to lead directly into the canvas. Similarly, Anni Albers’ designs for textiles use graphic design to lend a sense of dynamism to flat works. Her Study for Unexecuted Wall Hanging (Bauhaus), from 1984 is a Mondrian-like pattern for a weaving in which different colors alternately recede and advance into the foreground, giving the image a sense of complexity and uncanny depth.
Josef Albers also created works of public art, including a delicate, geometric gold leaf mural called Two Structural Constellations for the lobby of the Corning Glass building in New York City in 1959. He designed a work called Two Portals for the lobby of the Time & Life Building in 1961, in which which and brown bands move towards two square panels made of bronze. Walter Gropius invited Albers to create a piece for the Pan Am Building, which he was designing with the architectural firm of Emery Roth & Sons. Albers reworked an existing glass piece from his Bauhaus days called City, and, fittingly, renamed it Manhattan.
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