Untitled [8]
Artist
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007)American, 1928–2007
Publisher
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Untitled [8]
- from the series Work from Instructions
Date1971
Published inHalifax, Canada
MediumLithograph in colors on wove paper, edition 20/25
DimensionsImage: 23 5/8 × 20 in. (60 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 28 1/16 × 27 15/16 in. (71.3 × 71 cm)
Sheet: 28 1/16 × 27 15/16 in. (71.3 × 71 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and an anonymous donor
Object number74.266.8
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsObject Type
"Works on Paper: Recent Prints," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 26—July 17, 1983.
“Line: Making the Mark,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 12, 2014–March 22, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left corner: 20/25
Recto: Inscribed in red printed ink, center bottom edge: Using a black, hard crayon, put fifty small dots, at random, over the surface of the stone. Then connect each dot with a straight line. Print the result in four colors (yellow, black, red and blue) by turning the stone a quarter for each color.
Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower left: NS154
Recto: Inscribed in red printed ink, center bottom edge: Using a black, hard crayon, put fifty small dots, at random, over the surface of the stone. Then connect each dot with a straight line. Print the result in four colors (yellow, black, red and blue) by turning the stone a quarter for each color.
Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower left: NS154
Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt
Chopmark, lower right: [embossed]
Catalogue raisonnéSol Lewitt Prints (online), 1971.18
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