May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
ALBERS, JOSEF. Formulation: Articulation. 2 volumes. 127 color screenprints, 380x510 mm; 15x20 inches (sheets), full margins, each printed on folding numbered folio sheets. Large oblong folio, booklet with preface and descriptive text and plates laid into publisher's grey cloth-covered folding portfolios; slipcases, unevenly faded, edges a bit rubbed; internally clean. New York: Harry N. Abrams; and New Haven: Ives-Sillman, Inc., 1972

Additional Details

number 24 of only 100 sets marked hors commerce and signed by albers, with a separate test print. From a total edition of 1000 sets. The test print measures 381x1016 mm; 15x40 inches, stamped "Ives-Stillman Test Print" next to Albers's raised stamp, lower right margin. One of his most sumptuous publications, including 127 finely executed silkscreen prints of which 121 are in color, printed on wove Mohawk Superfine paper. Danilowitz Appendix C.