48pp, 53 b&w illustrations + 2 color screenprint illustrations. Designed by Norman Ives. With a chronology, bibliography and exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1956 Josef Albers retrospective exhibition of fifty-nine artworks and objects executed between 1921 and 1956 held at the legendary abstract artist, Bauhaus design teacher, and Yale University Art department chair's own Yale University Art Gallery. It features a text by George Heard Hamilton as well as brief excerpts of the writings by the artist, and includes two tipped-in, vibrantly colored, unsigned individual "Homage to the Square" screenprints. A handsome example of htis uncommon item showing showing some mild soiling and wear to its embossed matte white covers.

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Title

JOSEF ALBERS: PAINTINGS PRINTS PROJECTS - A CATALOGUE PREPARED BY GEORGE HEARD HAMILTON FOR AN EXHIBITION ARRANGED BY SEWELL SILLMAN

Publisher

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Publication Date

1956

Binding

Debossed Wrappers

Edition

First Edition 1/1500.

Condition

Very Good.

Book Type

Artist Monograph

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