Original first edition silkscreens from Josef Albers "Interaction of Color", published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited edition of 2000.  These two silkscreens demonstrate the Bezold Effect.  They are in mint condition, rare for an "Interaction of Color" prints.  The small ink dot indicates the lower right corner.  Folder size: 13 x 20 inches, 13 x 10 inches when folded as issued.  Each print measures 6 x 7 inches.  A copy of the Colophon pages is provided.
 
Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors and students, "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in Twentieth-Century art education, with Albers' principles explained in "Interaction of Color" still taught today.
 
Regarding the Bezold Effect, Albers wrote:
 
"This is a special kind of optical mixture, the Bezold Effect, named after its discoverer, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837-1907).  He recognized this effect when searching for a method through which he could change the color combinations of his rug designs entirely by adding or changing one color only.  Apparently, there is so far no clear recognition of the optical-perceptual conditions involved. 
Shown are 2 brick walls of equal shape and bond. The joints of the left wall are black, and at right, white. The bricks at left appear darker, those at right, lighter. This difference in red is an illusion -- of optical mixture -- because the bricks are factually alike, of the same color and of the same red paper."
Born 1888 in Bottrop, Germany, Josef Albers is considered one of the most influential artists and teacher of visual arts of the 20th Century. Although Albers had studied painting, it was as a maker of stained glass that he joined the faculty of the Bauhaus in 1922, approaching this medium as a component of architecture and as an art form. After the Nazis came to power, Albers and his wife Anni, moved to the United States where he became head of Black Mountain College's Art Department from 1933 until 1950, when Albers left to head Yale University's Department of Design. There, his students included Richard Anuszkiewicz, John Chamberlain, Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Sewell Sillman, who became a publisher of many Albers editions. His works on paper include "Interaction of Color" (1963), "Homage to the Square" (various years), "Ten Variants" (1967), and "Formulation: Articulation" (1972). Our Gallery has Albers prints from all these editions.