ALBERS, JOSEF
1888 Bottrop - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut
Title: SP IV.
Date: 1967.
Technique: Colour silkscreen on card.
Depiction Size: 50 x 50cm
Sheet Size: 61,5 x 61,5cm.
Notation: Numbered, titled and inscribed.
Publisher: Edition Domberger, Stuttgart für die Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln (publisher).
Number: U 2/14.
Condition:
Minimal bumpings to the upper two corners. Verso remains of an old mounting. Otherwise in very good condition.
Outside the edition of 125 signed and numbered copies. From the 12-part series 'SP'.
The sheets, which were published outside the edition of Galerie Der Spiegel, are labelled with a 'U' (= unsigned). Albers authorised the sale, but the sheets were not signed, dated, titled or inscribed. The sheet was therefore titled and numbered by Galerie Der Spiegel.
Cf. Literature:
- Danilowitz, Brenda (ed.): The prints of Josef Albers - A Catalogue Raisonné,
1915-1976, Manchester/New York 2010 (2nd ed.), cat. rais. no. 175.4.