Lot 19
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Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)

Wall Drawing #528 G

Details
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
Wall Drawing #528 G
wall installation - a centered cube within a circle, with colour ink washes superimposed
dimensions variable
Conceived in 1987, this work is designed to be installed on a white wall in India ink and colour ink wash
Provenance
Ugo Ferranti Gallery, Rome.
Galerie Krief, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.
Literature
S. Singer (ed.), Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawings 1984-1988. Catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, 1989, pp. 52-53, 117, 156, 158 (illustrated).
S. Singer (ed.), Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawings 1984-1992. Catalogue raisonné, exh. cat, Bern, Kunsthalle Bern; Bilbao: Sala Rekalde; Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1992, pp. 52, 53, 147, 220 (illustrated).
B. Corà (ed.), Sol LeWitt in Italia, exh. cat., Perugia, CERP; Florence, Maschietto & Musolino, 1998 (illustrated, pp. 140-141).
A. Zevi, L'Italia nei Wall Drawings di Sol LeWitt, exh. cat., Naples, Madre, 2012, pp. 36-37, 169, 210-211 (illustrated).
L. Aveilhé (ed.), Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings. Catalogue raisonné, New York, 2018-ongoing (installation view illustrated).
Exhibited
Rome, Ugo Ferranti Gallery, Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawings, 1987 (first installation, drawn by Andrea Marescalchi, Anthony Sansotta and Aldo Scarpa).
Brescia, Galleria Massimo Minini, Ettore Spalletti/Sol LeWitt, 2013.
Further Details
This work consists of a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist and a diagram. This work may only be installed by the artist's assistants, the cost of which is not included in the purchase price.
Sale Room Notice
Please note that there is an additional literature reference for the present work:
L. Aveilhé (ed.), Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings. Catalogue raisonné, New York, 2018-ongoing (installation view illustrated).

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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, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000, p. 369).

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