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Modern | April 22, 2025

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From Modernists in Latin America, such as Omar Rayo and Manuel Felguerez, to representations of the early work of Thomas Downing, Gordon Onslow Ford, the Modern sale offers paintings, sculpture, and multiples from estates and fine collections. Other names to drop? Ernest Trova, Larry Rivers, Maud Gatewood, Nicolo Simbari, Werner Scholz, Tony Hernandez, Mary Whyte, and Mark Beard, Peter Roux, Bruce Brainard, Paul Vincent, important multiples by Jasper Johns, Calder, Chagall, and George Rodrigue, design by Edward Moulthrop, Georg Jensen, and George Nelson. If you love modern, enjoy this sale.
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Lot 128

Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, 1963

Estimate: $600 - $900
Starting Bid
$300

Bid Increments

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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

After Josef Albers (Connecticut/North Carolina/Germany, 1888-1976), almost complete from an edition of 2000 includes: 78 annotated folders (lacking two folders, XII-2 and XXIII-3) with original paper guards each containing color screen prints, offset prints, 4 color separation prints, some with additional tipped in leaves and loose instructional tools with cutouts, the text and commentary volumes, Yale University Press, publisher, New Haven and London, 1963, printed cloth covered clamshell case with printed cloth covered slip case, overall 14-1/4 x 5-1/2 x 11 in.

Provenance: Private Collection

See article: http://albersfoundation.org/alberses/teaching/interaction-of-color

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Private Collection

some screen prints with light scuffing, otherwise most in good condition, slight toning to edges of some folders, slip case with wear including fraying and separation of fabric at one edge, damp stains, clamshell with fading, damp stain on printed edge, books in good condition with some fading to cover, mainly spine, and light surface scuffing