About the Artwork
Pictographic
1953
Anni Albers
1899 - 1994
American
Unknown
Cotton and linen
Overall: 18 × 40 3/4 inches (45.7 × 103.5 cm)
Textiles
Contemporary Art after 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Stanley and Madalyn Rosen Fund, Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund, Octavia W. Bates Fund, Emma S. Fechimer Fund, and William C. Yawkey Fund.
79.166
© 2005 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Markings
Signed, embroidered, lower right corner: AA
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Provenance
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Anni Albers Pictorial Weavings. Exh. cat., the New Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA, 1959, pp. 10-11.
Albers, A. Anni Albers: On Weaving. Middletown, CT, 1965, pl. 100 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): 225 (ill.).
Coxon, Ann, Briony Fer and Maria Mϋller-Schareck, ed. Anni Albers. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2018, pp. 114-115.
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© 2005 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Anni Albers, Pictographic, 1953, cotton and linen. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Stanley and Madalyn Rosen Fund, Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund, et al., 79.166.
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