Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt
Wavy Brushstrokes
1994.
Gouache.
RSigned and dated in the lower right. On firm wove paper. 18.4 x 28.8 cm (7.2 x 11.3 in), the full sheet. [CH].
The Barcode of Life - The Hans Braun Collection
More works from the collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Saturday, December 7, 2024.
• Sol Lewitt was a leading figure of Minimalism and Concept Art.
• From 1965, he created modular works with spatial structures incorporating grid-like constructions that evolved into complex line structures in the following years.
• Lewitt makes the free painterly brushstroke protagonist of the iridescent play of colors.
• Works from the series “
Wavy Brushstrokes
” are part of important museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge/Mass., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
.