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
Restricted
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
Provenance
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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Credit Line for Reproduction
© 2005 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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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