Sol LeWitt
Untitled [4]

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Artist Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007)American, 1928–2007

CultureAmerican

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Untitled [4]
from the series Work from Instructions

Date1971

Published inHalifax, Canada

MediumLithograph, edition 20/25

DimensionsImage: 20 1/16 × 20 in. (51 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 28 × 28 in. (71.1 × 71.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and an anonymous donor

Object number74.266.4

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PRINTS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Art of the Twentieth Century: A Revelation," Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, October 4—November 5, 1982.

"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 four contigious ten inch squares, forming one twenty inch square, divided into quarters. Within the first square (upper left) draw one line, one inch long. Within the second square (upper right) draw ten lines, each one inch long. Within the third square (lower left) draw one hundred lines, each one inch long. Within the fourth square (lower right) draw one thousand lines, each one inch long. All lines should be drawn at random, and straight.
Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower left: NS146

Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom right corner: LeWitt

Chopmark, lower right: [embossed]

Catalogue raisonnéSol Lewitt Prints (online), 1971.18

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