1977.49.1: Untitled

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.49.1

People

Sol LeWitt, American (Hartford, CT 1928 - 2007 New York, NY)

Title

Untitled

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1965

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309106

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black fiber-tip ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 21 x 20.6 cm (8 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: SL 1965
• label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: [formerly on backing of communal mat, 1977.49.1 - .6] [typewritten:] Sol LeWitt / Six untitled drawings for early / Structures exhibited at The Daniels / Gallery New York 1965 / Drawings all dated 1965. / Size: 8" x 8 1/4" each. / [printed in gray:] LISSON GALLERY 68 BELL STREET / LONDON N.W. 1 TEL. 01-262 1539

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Lisson Gallery Ltd, London], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Copyright

© Estate of Sol LeWitt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.49.1

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), repr., fig. 115

Exhibition History

• Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986

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