Eggeling's "Symphonie Diagonale" from 1924 is a filigree of lines, while Richter's (except for a brief diagonal figure) maintains horizontality, more in keeping with the principles articulated by Piet Mondrian and (later) Josef Albers.

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After he bought the Calder and the Tomlin, Kirshenbaum wanted a piece by Josef Albers, a German-born Bauhaus artist who pioneered so-called color field painting, in which large blocks of color are spread across a canvas.

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Thirteen individual artist records were set, including for Koons, Ellsworth Kelly, John Chamberlain, Fang Lijun, Zhang Xiaogang, Anish Kapoor, Ad Reinhardt, Yan Pei Ming, Richard Serra, Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt, Walter de Maria and Matthew Barney.

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