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Josef Albers
Never Before: nine plates
- Estimate
- $8,000 - 12,000
$16,250
Lot Details
Nine screenprints in colors, on Arches 88 paper, with full margins, with the original blue cloth-covered portfolio and slipcase, with title page and colophon, lacking plates d, g and i.
1976
all I. 11 x 12 in. (27.9 x 30.5 cm)
all S. 19 x 19 5/8 in. (48.3 x 49.8 cm)
all S. 19 x 19 5/8 in. (48.3 x 49.8 cm)
Seven signed (as issued), all titled, dated, and numbered 14/46 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Tyler Graphics, Bedford Village, New York (with their blindstamps), all framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
This was Albers' final print portfolio. At the time of his death, he had signed only eight of the 12 prints (d, h, i and l were unsigned) and those have no blindstamps.
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