Incomplete open cube drawing - Ten & Eleven part variations

Details

Sol Lewitt (AMERICAN, 1928-2007)
Incomplete open cube drawing - Ten & Eleven part variations
signed 'S. Lewitt' (lower right), and numbered with the series number '10/04' (lower left)
pencil and ink on paper
30 x 30.5 cm.
Executed circa 1973-74.

Provenance

Galerie Parade, Amsterdam.

Literature

Exh.cat., Sol Lewitt, Incomplete open cubes, the John Weber Gallery, New York 1974 (ill.).
Exh.cat, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Sol Lewitt, retrospective, 3 February - 4 April 1978, p. 81 (ill. of the whole series).

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Sol Lewitt, retrospective, 3 February - 4 April 1978.

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Lot Essay

"Although at first I thought it was not a complex project, this piece provided more problems than anticipated. (...) The series started with three-part pieces because a cube implies three dimensions and, of course, ends with one eleven-part piece (one bar removed). In this case, if one understands the idea of a cube, one may mentally reconstruct the cube, filling in the missing bars."

(Sol Lewitt, quoted in Sol Lewitt, retrospective, exh.cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1978, p. 81.)

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