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Blind stamped with Gemini's mark."}],"objectHistory":"A complete list of exhibitions up to 1988 is published in Getulio Alviani [Ed.] Josef Albers. Milan, 1988.\nPlates: E.66.1-10-1994    Portfolio: E.66.11-1994 The technique used to produce this suite is a  development of that used to produce Embossed Linear  Constructions (see note for E.60.1-8-1994), using an  automatic milling machine, but with  White Embossing on Gray the plates were also surface inked.  The plates  were printed onto Roleaf, an all-rag paper specially  developed for Albers to use with embossed prints.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Josef Albers: Print - White Embossing on Gray VII. 1971","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gerald Nordland and Kenneth Tyler, Josef Albers White Embossings on Gray Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1971.\r\nBrenda Danilowitz: 'Josef Albers Prints 1915-1976: a Catalogue Raisonné' New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2001. 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