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Albers, Josef (Bottrop 1888 – New Haven 1976). Interaction of Color IX-2. White/Grey and White/Yellow/Grey. 2 color silk-screens on double plate. (1973.) 30.4 x 23 and 27.8 x 20.4 cm resp.

“ In his monumental textbook ‘Interaction of Color’ (1963) … (Josef Albers) condenses his theory of colors which above all deals with color-psychological aspects. I. a. he discusses in it the Bezold effect … According to comments by A. himself beside the interaction of colors (reciprocal variation or intensification), the object of these works is to preserve for each color in spite of its co-operation with others, as far as possible, its ‘own face’. As … silk-screens three or four squares each into one another appear on vertical symmetric axis. These representations obviously elucidate the practical experience that one and the same color permits innumerable readings ”

(Michael Heyder, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon II [1992], p. 47).
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