Duo S-Z
Josef Albers
Description
Josef Albers
United States, born Germany, 1888–1976
Duo S-Z
1958
Intaglio on paper
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson, 2009/2.015
(Flip Your Field: Abstract Art from the Collection, June 9 – September 2, 2012, text by Celeste Brusati)
Subject Matter:
Albers was a German-American geometric abstract painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, writer, and teacher. Between 1958-1962, while working on his complicated series based on color, Albers was also working on a new series of colorless intaglio prints. These were based on drawings that he called “Structural Constellations”--compact line drawings of three-dimensional forms that would be impossible to construct in real space.
Physical Description:
This object is a cream colored sheet of paper in a horizontal rectangular shape with geometric forms embossed in the center section. There is no color and the geometric forms are created by raised lines. There is a long rectangle that contains two sets of intersecting cubes. The object title, edition number, artist signature and date are written in pencil below the rectangle.
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