Homage to the Square: MMA-2

© The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Homage to the Square: MMA-2

Currently not on view

Homage to the Square: MMA-2,

1970

Josef Albers, 1888–1976; born Bottrop, Germany; died New Haven, CT; active Weimar, Germany, and New Haven
Printed by Sirocco Screenprinters
x1972-5

Information

Title
Homage to the Square: MMA-2
Dates

1970

Maker
Josef Albers
Printed by Sirocco Screenprinters
Medium
Silkscreen
Dimensions
image: 38 × 38 cm (14 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.) sheet: 62 x 61.7 cm (24 7/16 x 24 5/16 in.) frame: 62.8 × 62.8 × 3.5 cm (24 3/4 × 24 3/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
x1972-5
Place Made

North America, United States, Connecticut, New Haven

Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite below composition, lower right: Albers '70
Inscription
Inscribed in graphite below composition, lower left: M.M.A.-2 64//100 Printed in gray along bottom of sheet: Easy to know that diamonds are preecious / good to learn that rubies have depth / but more to see that pebbles are miraculous J.A. / Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: MMA 2 / In commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marks/Labels/Seals
Blindstamp of Metropolitan Museum of Art, lower left Blindstamp lower right: [gemini?]
Reference Numbers
Danilowitz 201
Culture
American
Type
prints, screen prints
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
screen printing
Subject
squares (geometric figures), red

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