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- Estimate
- £300,000–£400,000 hammer ≈ $395,118–$526,825
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Contemporary Art Evening Auction, London · 5 October 2017
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4600496
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Josef Albers, Homage to the Square. Sotheby's, 5 Oct 2017, lot 27. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4600496.
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Josef Albers, Homage to the Square. Sotheby's, 5 Oct 2017, lot 27. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4600496.
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From the same sale Contemporary Art Evening Auction · Oct 2017
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled (Baum 9) | Sigmar Polke | £800,000–£1,200,000 | |
| The Circus Animals' Desertion | Cecily Brown | £800,000–£1,200,000 | |
| Untitled | Wade Guyton | £350,000–£450,000 | |
| Tempête en Mer Du Nord, Étude No. 3 | Thierry De Cordier | £250,000–£350,000 | |
| Bronze | Jean-Michel Basquiat | £5,000,000–£7,000,000 | |
| The Fourteenth V.N. Painting | David Hockney | £480,000–£650,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josef Albers | Homage to the Square | $742,398 | Phillips, Oct 2023 | |
| Josef Albers | Study for Homage to the Square: Earth and Sky | Sotheby's, Nov 2021 | ||
| Josef Albers | Study to Homage to the Square: Sudden Spring | Christie's, Jun 2021 | ||
| Josef Albers | Study for Homage to the Square: Sel: E.B. 8 | Sotheby's, Nov 2023 | ||
| Josef Albers | Homage to the Square: Polar | Sotheby's, Oct 2023 | ||
| Josef Albers | Study to Homage to the Square: Consonant | Phillips, Mar 2025 | ||
| Josef Albers | Study for Homage to the Square | Christie's, Jun 2023 | ||
| Josef Albers | Study for Homage to the Square: Either Or | Christie's, Nov 2024 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.