JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) Homage to the Square: Between 2 Scarlets

JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Between 2 Scarlets
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'A62' (lower right); signed and dated again, titled, and inscribed with a handwritten description of media used ‘Albers 1962 Homage to the Square: “Between 2 Scarlets”’ (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
101.2 x 101.2 cm. (40 x 40 in.)
Painted in 1962

Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private collection, Dallas
Private collection, New York
Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1985)
Christie's London, 23 March 2021, lot 48
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature
ABC of the DaimlerChrysler art collection: a workbook for learners and students in South Africa, exh. cat., Seippel Verlag, Cologne, 2004 (illustrated, p. 12).
Geometría en el siglo XX en la Daimler Art Collection, exh. cat., The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA), 2010 (illustrated, p. 51; listed, p. 153).
R. Wiehager, Minimalism and After, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2010 (illustrated, p. 135).
R. Wiehager, Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties, exh. cat., Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2012 (illustrated, p.224).
R. Wiehager, Novecento mai visto: capolavori dalla Daimler Art Collection : from Albers to Warhol to (now), exh. cat., Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2013 (illustrated, p. 37, 137 & 173).
Highways and Byways. Together Again., exh. cat., Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, 2013 (illustrated, p. 6 & 25).