Josef Albers
Sandgrube I (Sandmine I)

Sandgrube I (Sandmine I)

© The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Sandgrube I (Sandmine I)
Sandgrube I (Sandmine I)
ArtistAmerican, born Germany, 1888–1976
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sandgrube I (Sandmine I)
Date1916
MediumLinoleum cut on Japanese paper
DimensionsImage: 11 7/8 × 9 7/16 in. (30.2 × 24 cm)
Sheet: 15 11/16 × 11 11/16 in. (39.9 × 29.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Art + Paper 2021
Object number2021.87
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist, 1916 and 1944, respectively; The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New Haven, CT, until 2021; [Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, as of 2021]; sold to MFAH, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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None known
Catalogue raisonnéDanilowitz, Brenda, The Prints of Josef Albers: A Catalogue Raisonné 1915–1976 (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001), Cat. 4 and Cat. 116, ill.

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Josef Albers
1934
Linoleum cut on Japanese paper, edition 7/25
92.121
Astatic
Josef Albers
1944
Woodcut from plywood on Japanese nacre kozo wove paper, edition 29/35
2021.88
Homage to the Square SPIII
Josef Albers
1967
Screenprint in colors on paper board, edition 11/125
2004.1606
Sachi
Delita Pinchback Martin
2020
Reduction linoleum cut in colors on wove paper, cut-and-glued metallic paint on wove paper, cut-and-pasted block print on Japanese paper, cut-and-glued linoleum cut and embossing on wove paper; and cotton thread, edition 1/7
2021.291
Fox I
Anni Albers
1972
Photo offset lithograph on wove paper, edition 38/150
80.83
Josef Albers
1972
Slipcase for a book of screenprints
76.232.2.A
Josef Albers
1972
Book of screenprints
76.232.2.B
Fox II
Anni Albers
1972
Photo offset lithograph on wove paper, edition 12/150
80.84
images from Tina Tan
Alice Austin
2018
Artist book of linoleum cuts in colors and letterpress on wove paper; objects made of silver, glass, sea shells and plastic placed in Japanese shibori textile bags; all components housed in a wooden box, edition 2 of 5 deluxe copies, edition of 15
2019.38
Untitled [Tiger and Lamb]
Leonard Baskin
1952
Linoleum cut on Japanese paper, from edition of 50
2019.671