Accession Number
2009/2.15

Title
Duo S-Z

Artist(s)
Josef Albers

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1958

Medium & Support
Intaglio on paper

Dimensions
8 11/16 in. x 11 13/16 in. ( 22 cm x 30 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson

Label copy
Josef Albers
United States, born Germany, 1888–1976
Duo S-Z
1958
Intaglio on paper
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson, 2009/2.015
(Flip Your Field: Abstract Art from the Collection, June 9 – September 2, 2012, text by Celeste Brusati)

Subject matter
Albers was a German-American geometric abstract painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, writer, and teacher. Between 1958-1962, while working on his complicated series based on color, Albers was also working on a new series of colorless intaglio prints. These were based on drawings that he called “Structural Constellations”--compact line drawings of three-dimensional forms that would be impossible to construct in real space.

Physical Description
This object is a cream colored sheet of paper in a horizontal rectangular shape with geometric forms embossed in the center section. There is no color and the geometric forms are created by raised lines. There is a long rectangle that contains two sets of intersecting cubes. The object title, edition number, artist signature and date are written in pencil below the rectangle.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
intaglio print

Rights
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Keywords
cubes (geometric figures)
intaglio prints
rectangles