Baden-Baden, (Germany): Agis-Verlag, 1965. First edition (one of only 120 copies). Square 4to. With text by Rolf-Gunter Dienst. Title-page printed in red and in green. Illustrated with five color screen-prints by Josef Albers, each signed, titled, dated, and numbered #70/120, by him in pencil below image (comprising: Concord, Silent, Opalescent, Chrysoprase, and Attic). Each print measuring 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (311 x 311 mm). Printed on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper at Sirocco Screenprints, New Haven, Connecticut. Text and plates printed on bifolium and loose as issued in stiff printed wrappers; in custom yellow paper slip case and chemise. Danilowitz 167

A fine and rare complete portfolio of Josef Alber's Die Oberflache (The Surface), one of only 120 copies printed. "In 1964 Albers created a screen-print Slate and Sky to be sold with a special limited edition of the art magazine Das Kunstwerk. In February 1965 Rolf-Gunter Dienst, an artist, critic, and editor at Das Kunstwerk, approached Albers with a proposal that Albers create five Homage to the Square screen-prints to accompany a text the magazine's publisher's had commissioned from Dienst. The result was Die Oberflache..." (Danilowitz)