Sol LeWitt
Hartford, Connecticut 1928 - New York 2007
Photo courtesy Sofia LeWitt
The bringing to fruition of a project is the basic element of his drawings and murals. Every detail is the visualization of the same idea. The plan, the intention, determine the form.
Sol LeWitt, Drawing, March 29, 1970. Pen on linen paper, 29,5 x 88 cm. Panza Collection, Mendrisio. Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing No. 146, September 1972. All two-part combinations of blue arcs from corners and sides, and blue straight, not straight and broken lines. Blue crayon. Dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection, Gift, 1992. Installazione Villa Panza, Varese, 1981. Photo © Giorgio Colombo, Milano
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing No.152, January 1973. Three part drawing. First wall: straight horizontal lines. Second wall: not straight horizontal lines. Third wall: broken horizontal lines. Lines about 5 cm. apart. Black pencil. Dimensions variable. Panza Collection, Mendrisio. (Detail: straight/not straight lines) Photo Alessandro Zambianchi, Milano
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing No.272, Varese, July 1975. An increasing number of horizontal lines about 1 in. apart from bottom to top, vertical lines from top to bottom, diagonal right lines from left to right, diagonal left lines right to left. Black pencil. Dimensions variable. FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Collezione Panza, Gift, 2022. Installation Villa Panza, Varese 1975. Photo Gian Sinigaglia, Milano
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