
Homage to the Square: Wide Sight (study)
A luminous study from Albers' celebrated *Homage to the Square* series, this work presents nested squares of carefully calibrated color, demonstrating the artist's lifelong investigation into the relativity of color perception. Executed in oil on masonite, Albers' preferred support for its smooth, non-absorbent surface, the composition reveals how adjacent hues can appear to advance, recede, or transform one another through proximity alone. The artist's own frame further controls the viewing environment, ensuring the chromatic relationships are experienced precisely as intended.
- Medium
- oil on masonite, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
October 14, 2015
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