Sol LeWitt

(American, 1928–2007)

Sol LeWitt was an iconic American artist whose work helped to establish both Minimalism and Conceptual Art. LeWitt’s practice was based primarily within his own intellect, establishing a rubric of formal instructions which his assistants followed to create the works. Some of the artist’s most integral pieces are his Wall Drawings, in which he explored myriad variations of applying drawn lines onto walls. “When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art,” he wrote in his seminal 1967 essay Paragraphs on Conceptual Art. Born Solomon LeWitt on September 9, 1928 in Hartford, CT, he received his BFA from Syracuse University before serving in the United States Army during the Korean War. After the war, he moved to New York, where he attended illustration classes and worked as a graphic designer for several magazines. During the 1950s, while experimenting with painting during the day and working nights at The Museum of Modern Art he met the artists Robert Ryman, Dan Flavin, and Robert Mangold. By the early 1960s, influenced by a combination of Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Albers, and Eadweard Muybridge, LeWitt had developed his uniquely cerebral approach to making art. The artist would go on to cofound the artist book nonprofit Printed Matter, Inc. in 1976 with writer Lucy Lippard. Over the course of his career he would have a profound influence on both his peers and younger artists including Frank Stella and Eva Hesse. LeWitt died on April 8, 2007 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, NY, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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Plate 40, from Twelve Forms Derived from a..., 1984

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Plate 40, from Twelve Forms Derived from a..., 1984

Sale Date: February 22, 2024

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Plate 10, from Twelve Forms Derived from a..., 1984

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Plate 10, from Twelve Forms Derived from a..., 1984

Sale Date: February 22, 2024

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Flat Top Pyramid with Colors Superimposed, 1988

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Flat Top Pyramid with Colors Superimposed, 1988

Sale Date: February 22, 2024

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Irregular Red, Yellow and Blue Rectangles..., 1993

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Irregular Red, Yellow and Blue Rectangles..., 1993

Sale Date: February 22, 2024

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Untitled, from Composite Series, 1970

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Untitled, from Composite Series, 1970

Sale Date: February 20, 2024

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BEZ TYTUŁU, 1985

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BEZ TYTUŁU, 1985

Sale Date: February 20, 2024

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Form Derivative From a Cube, 1982

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Form Derivative From a Cube, 1982

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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Wavy brushstrokes superimposed, 1995

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Wavy brushstrokes superimposed, 1995

Sale Date: February 7, 2024

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Three Postcards, 1982

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Three Postcards, 1982

Sale Date: February 28, 2024

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Three Postcards, 1994

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Three Postcards, 1994

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Three Postcards, 1993

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Three Postcards, 1993

Sale Date: February 28, 2024

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Untitled, 1993

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Untitled, 1993

Sale Date: February 27, 2024

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Five Pointed Star with Color Bands, 1992

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Five Pointed Star with Color Bands, 1992

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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Isometric Figures, 2002

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Isometric Figures, 2002

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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Bands of Lines in Four Directions in Four..., 1977

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Bands of Lines in Four Directions in Four..., 1977

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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Untitled (from the Forms Derived from a Cube , 1982

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Untitled (from the Forms Derived from a Cube , 1982

Sale Date: February 14, 2024

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Brushstrokes in All Directions (K. 1994.05), 1994

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Brushstrokes in All Directions (K. 1994.05), 1994

Sale Date: February 15, 2024

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Untitled, 1996

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Untitled, 1996

Sale Date: January 26, 2024

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Tangled Bands, 2001

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Tangled Bands, 2001

Sale Date: January 26, 2024

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Straight Lines in all Directions #14, 1996

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Straight Lines in all Directions #14, 1996

Sale Date: February 21, 2024

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Straight Lines in all Directions #9, 1996

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Straight Lines in all Directions #9, 1996

Sale Date: February 21, 2024

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Double Cubes in Grays and Colors Superimposed

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Double Cubes in Grays and Colors Superimposed

Sale Date: February 8, 2024

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Five Pointed Star with Color Bands, 1992

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Five Pointed Star with Color Bands, 1992

Sale Date: March 22, 2023

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Tangled Bands, 2002

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Tangled Bands, 2002

Sale Date: March 22, 2023

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