“Homage to the Square” paintings are on view in the new Louvre Abu Dhabi
The Louvre, in an elaborate selection process, settled on three 18 x 18 inch Homages to the Square that they acquired from the Foundation.
On November 11, the Louvre Abu Dhabi opened. Its impressive building has only one gallery devoted to the art of the last century. Starting about three years ago, with the Galerie Denise René as the conduit, the Albers Foundation was informed that the Louvre wanted to buy work by Josef for that space, so that Homages to the Square could hang alongside masterpieces by Klee and Mondrian as the quintessence of what was achieved in abstract painting. The Louvre, in an elaborate selection process, settled on three 18 x 18 in. Homages to the Square that they acquired from the Foundation. For Josef's work to be in a branch of the Louvre in the same space as Leonardo da Vinci's La Belle Ferronière, Claude Monet's Saint-Lazare and Henri Matisse's Still Life With Magnolia has him in the echelon he deserves.
