May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
"TO DESIGN IS TO PLAN AND ORGANIZE, TO ORDER, TO RELATE AND TO CONTROL" ALBERS, JOSEF. Archive of 11 items, each to Nicolas Apgar: 7 Autograph Letters Signed, "J. Albers" or "JosefAlbers," one with a small ink drawing * Two books Signed and Inscribed * Autograph Note Signed, "J.A." * Brief Autograph Manuscript, unsigned. The letters, concerning the preparation and anticipated publication of his book, The Interaction of Color (1975). Together 8 pages, oblong 8vo or 4to, personal stationery; folds. The books: Bucher and Albers. Despite Straight Lines, "For Nicolas and Nancy Apgar / JosefAlbers / XII. 61," on the half-title * Albers. Search Versus Re-Search, "For Nicolas Apgar / Happy New Year 1970 / JosefAlbers," on a preliminary leaf. Each square 4to, cloth backed or full cloth, worn; dust jacket, worn. New Haven, 1961; Hartford, 1969. The note, written in the blank lower margin of a Typed Letter Signed by Anni Albers to Apgar: "I am so glad / to have you / in my 'Interaction'." 1 page, oblong 8vo. New Haven, 10 November 1963. The manuscript, a quotation from his Despite Straight Lines with other notes, on a small slip of paper, beginning "To design is to plan and organize, to order, to relate and to control . . . ." 1 1/2 pages, 16mo, written on the recto and verso. Np, nd. [New Haven], 1961-70
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26 February 1961: ". . . I am keeping still your color studies. But only now it seems that the color book is going to be printed. By the Yale Press . . . . I am quite sure that your excellent gradation study in black-gray-white will get in . . . ."
22 September 1961: ". . . [T]he color book is going. . . . Today we decided what it is going to contain. And that Yale Press wants to make it as I wish. So it will have 80 large size folders with less or more than 200 color reproductions most of them students studies and most silkscreen. . . . It may take a year to produce. . . . [I]t may cost up to $100, so, institutions will be the customers. . . . [M]y book 'Poems and Drawings' . . . came out in its second edition . . . . They want to bring out soon also my 'Selected Writings.' And next month the Yale Press publishes a small book, 'Despite Straight Lines' . . . about my linear constructions . . . . And next month The [Sidney] Janis Gallery New York is showing my new paintings. . . . You see they keep me busy. . . ."
19 February 1963: "Soon you will receive an announcement of the Yale Press re my book 'Interaction of Color', which is to appear May 1. . . . I wish to print in it as many names as possible of the student authors of the studies reproduced . . . . I need the name and address of the girl who found those gray paint chip[s] with rounded corners and arranged them to a gradation study [holograph diagram in left margin]. . . ."
10 July 1964: ". . . I wonder whether it would stimulate you to write sometime a few sentences about my teaching (which could be printed) . . . ."
". . . Occupied now with too many exhibitions and too many prints. I must postpone reading . . . ."