Sol LeWitt
Untitled
1998

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Original color silkscreen, 1998. Edition of 108 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Sol LeWitt was a well-known American Conceptual and Minimal artist. He is famous for his sculptures, wall drawings, gouaches and prints even though he didn’t want this fame. The concept or idea was the most important for his work and he had no interest in inherent narrative or descriptive imagery. “If the artist carried through his idea and makes it into visible form, then all the steps in the process are of importance. The idea itself, even if not made visual, is as much a work of art as any finished product.” – LeWitt. His art is reduced to basic shapes – spheres, triangles and quadrilateral, but also colored with basic colors – red, yellow, blue and black. He made types of lines, and organized them by guidelines he felt in the end free to bend. It is hard to watch the whole picture. We can see here a logical system of lines, and lines and colors make us to watch part by part.

Creator:

Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007, American)

Creation Year:

1998

Dimensions:

Height: 37.41 in (95 cm)Width: 30.32 in (77 cm)

Medium:

Screen

Movement & Style:

Op Art

Period:

1990-1999

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Ljubljana, SI

Reference Number:

Seller: SKU: 1281stDibs: LU2244212915172

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Sol LeWitt

While New York City’s art scene in the 1950s and ’60s revolved around Abstract Expressionism, multidisciplinary artist Sol LeWitt paved an alternative path, creating a prolific output of work in the genres of minimalism and, later, Conceptual art.

While LeWitt is perhaps best known for his immense “wall drawings,” he created work in a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. (However, in a characteristic rebuttal of canonical art history, he referred to these pieces as “structures.”) He also produced several texts, including the seminal Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969).

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928, LeWitt received a BFA from Syracuse University before going to work as a graphic designer for the renowned architect I.M. Pei. He would later work at the book counter at the Museum of Modern Art, where his colleagues included fellow artists. LeWitt’s early exposure to architecture may well have had outsize influence on his subsequent career: He was known for the geometric nature of his work, specifically his fastidious, near-obsessive treatment of the cube, which he rendered repeatedly in various ways throughout his paintings, structures and wall drawings.

In the 1960s, LeWitt showed in several group exhibitions throughout New York and also began to experiment with three-dimensional structures, most modular riffs on the cube shape. His work was included in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism.

Later, LeWitt debuted his now-iconic wall drawings, creating work directly on the walls of galleries and show spaces, beginning with pioneering gallerist Paula Cooper’s inaugural show in 1968. The wall drawings became a prime example of LeWitt’s philosophical approach to art, with their installation often carried out by museum staff or curators following precise instructions from the artist.

“The idea,” the artist once said, “becomes a machine that makes the art.” LeWitt continued to produce work until his death in 2007.

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