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Plate (folio 9) from Six Geometric Figures and All Their Combinations, Volume I

Plate (folio 9) from Six Geometric Figures and All Their Combinations, Volume I

Sol LeWitt
American, 1928–2007
1980
An etching from an illustrated book in which Sol LeWitt uses repeated, precisely spaced lines to outline a square and a triangle as a controlled, rule-based study of basic geometric forms.
You first notice a field of dense black incised with thin white lines whose orientation shifts to carve out a vertically striped square at left and a diagonally bounded triangle at right, creating a steady, almost musical rhythm of positive and negative space.
Part of LeWitt’s serial, conceptual practice, this work shows how simple rules and permutations of line and shape can generate a rigorous visual language that helped redefine art as a system or instruction rather than solely an individual gesture.
Medium
One from an illustrated book with sixty-three etchings
Dimensions
composition: 7 7/8 x 7 7/8" (20 x 20 cm); page: 9 1/16 x 9 1/16" (23 x 23 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Allen Skolnick
Accession
469.1982.8
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