Sol LeWitt[no title] 1975

P07662 [from] The Location of Six Geometric Figures 1975 [P07660-P07665; complete]

Six etchings 15 3/4 × 16 (400 × 406) on paper 24 × 19 7/8 (608 × 506), printed by Kathan Brown at Crown Point Press, Oakland, California and published by Parasol Press, New York
Each inscribed ‘LeWitt’ b.r. and ‘2/25’ and ‘i/iv’ - ‘vi/vi’; each stamped on the back with the printer's name
Purchased from Lisson Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
Repr: Sol LeWitt, Graphik 1970–1975, Basel, 1975, pp.62–7

The following entry is based on a conversation between the compiler and the artist held on 27 November 1985 in London and has been approved by the artist. Each print consists of a text which provides details of the location within a square of a geometric figure. Each print concerns a different figure, the range being a circle, a square, a triangle, a rectangle, a parallelogram and a trapezoid. Above each text is an image which is a visual analogue of the text, for not only are the figures themselves portrayed but also the points which have been plotted and the lines drawn in order to locate the figures. The square in which each figure is located is defined by the borders of the plate mark… (read more)