Treasured Enclosure

Josef Albers American, 1888-1976
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About the Artwork

Treasured Enclosure

1954

Josef Albers

1888-1976

American

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Luminall on canvas

Unframed: 24 × 24 inches (61 × 61 cm) Framed: 24 5/8 × 24 5/8 × 1 1/4 inches (62.5 × 62.5 × 3.2 cm)

Paintings

Contemporary Art after 1950

Gift of Anni Albers and The Josef Albers Foundation

79.173

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Markings

Signed, verso: Albers 1954

Signed, dated and inscribed with title on verso: "Treasured Enclosure" (Homage to the Square) | Albers 1954

Back of frame, upper right: #676

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The artist;
1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 204 (ill.).

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 27, 1980, p. 18 (ill.).

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Josef Albers, Treasured Enclosure, 1954, Luminall on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anni Albers and The Josef Albers Foundation, 79.173.

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