Josef Albers – Late, from Soft Edge-Hard Edge, 1965 – Screen-print

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Late (1965) by Josef Albers is a striking example from his Soft Edge-Hard Edge series, exploring the relationship between color, shape, and perception. This 11-inch square screenprint features concentric squares in subtly shifting tones of black and deep gray, anchored on a cream background. Albers’ precise geometry and the optical effect of nested squares demonstrate his ongoing interest in how color interacts within defined spatial structures. This minimalist composition is both meditative and methodical, reflecting his Bauhaus roots and his influential role in color theory.

Josef Albers (Germany/USA, 1888–1976) was a groundbreaking artist, designer, and educator central to the Bauhaus movement and modern art. Known for his Homage to the Square series, he explored color theory and perception. Albers’ teachings and writings, like Interaction of Color, have profoundly influenced contemporary art and design education.

Josef Albers

Late, from Soft Edge-Hard Edge, 1965

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Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
- Josef Albers

Often cited as one of the founders of minimalist and conceptual art, Josef Albers is widely acclaimed for his theoretical teachings on art and his interplay between shape and colour. Among his most recognised works, Homage to the Square is a series which spanned across the 50’s and the 60’s, and features a range of rigid, geometric productions applied to canvas, all of which were offset by whichever colour palette he had chosen to adopt – the combination of the geometry and colour creates various optical effects, for which Albers has become renowned. Albers has stated ‘abstraction is real, probably more real than nature’ - his work is an attempt to portray this philosophy, and he challenges the viewer to analyse their own perspective with each piece; Structural Constellations is perhaps is most celebrated work of this kind, a subtle piece composed of simple lines that combine to create illusory forms. (Artist website)

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Josef Albers

Late, from Soft Edge-Hard Edge, 1965

27.9 x 27.9 cm

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