Artist
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007)American, 1928–2007
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Untitled [3]
- from the series Work from Instructions
Date1971
PlaceHalifax, Canada
MediumLithograph, edition 20/25
DimensionsImage: 23 1/2 × 20 in. (59.7 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 28 × 27 15/16 in. (71.1 × 71 cm)
Sheet: 28 × 27 15/16 in. (71.1 × 71 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and an anonymous donor
Object number74.266.3
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 312
On view
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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 draw a straight line of any length. From any point on that line draw another line perpendicular to the first. From any point on the second line draw another line perpendicular to that line. Repeat this procedure.
Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower left: NS145
Recto: Inscribed in red printed ink, center bottom edge: Using a black, hard crayon draw a straight line of any length. From any point on that line draw another line perpendicular to the first. From any point on the second line draw another line perpendicular to that line. Repeat this procedure.
Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower left: NS145
Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt
Chopmark, lower right: [embossed]
Catalogue raisonnéSol Lewitt Prints (online), 1971.18
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
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