Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)

Irregular Curves

Details
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
Irregular Curves
signed and dated 'S LeWitt 00' (lower right)
gouache on paper
51 3/8 x 135 ¾ in. (130.5 x 344.8 cm.)
Painted in 2000.
Provenance
Estate of the artist, New York
Pace Wildenstein, New York
Private collection, California
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Lot Essay

“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... Conceptual art is not necessarily logical. The logic of a piece or series of pieces is a device that is used at times only to be ruined. Logic may be used to camouflage the real intent of the artist, to lull the viewer into the belief that he understands the work, or to infer a paradoxical situation (such as logic vs. illogic)... Ideas are discovered by intuition.” (S. LeWitt, quoted in Sol LeWitt: a Retrospective, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2000, p. 369).

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