Study to Homage to the Square: "Star Blue"

1957
(American, 1888–1976)
Unframed: 75.9 x 75.9 cm (29 7/8 x 29 7/8 in.)
© The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Location: not on view

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In the summer of 1949, Albers began his celebrated series Homage to the Square, which would ultimately encompass more than a thousand paintings, drawings, prints, and tapestries before his death in 1976. The entire body of work was based on a mathematically determined format of several squares that appear to overlap or nest inside each other. Within this template of geometric abstraction, Albers endlessly explored the subjective experience of color, such as the effects that adjacent hues have on one another and the illusion of flat planes of color advancing or receding in space.
Study to Homage to the Square: "Star Blue"

Study to Homage to the Square: "Star Blue"

1957

Josef Albers

(American, 1888–1976)
America, 20th century

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