
Wall Drawing #63: A wall is divided into four horizontal parts. In the top row are four equal vertical divisions, each with lines in a different direction. In the second row, six double combinations; in the third row, four triple combinations; in the bottom row, all four combinations superimposed
Sol LeWitt · 1971
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through the John Weber Gallery, New York to Phillipe-Guy Woog, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 1971. Robert Feldman, New York, sold to Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; sold to Stefan T. Edlis and Gael Neeson, Chicago, Mar. 1983; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 30, 1985.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Geneva, Switzerland, Phillipe-Guy Woog residence, Jan. 1971, drawn by Kazuko Miyamoto, no cat.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Sol LeWitt, Feb. 3–Apr. 4, 1978, cat. 150 (represented by Composite: Lines in Four Directions in Single, Double, Triple, and Quadruple Combinations, 1969, pen-and-ink drawing); Montreal, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Sept. 7–Oct. 22, 1978; Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Mar. 4–Apr. 8, 1979; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, June 8–Aug. 12, 1979; La Jolla, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sept. 16–Nov. 4, 1979.
- Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings: 1968–1981, Sept. 29–Nov. 22, 1981, brochure, no cat. no.
- Madrid, La Sala de las Alhajas, Sol LeWitt: Dibujos Murales/Wall Drawings, Feb. 6–Mar. 30, 1996, no cat. no.
- Art Institute Chicago, Apr. 1997, drawn by Devorah Heitner, Anthony Sansotta, and Russell Williams, varnished by John Hogan, no cat.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, Feb. 19–May 30, 2000, cat. 78 (represented by Composite Series [set of five], 1971, silkscreen); Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, July 22–Oct. 22, 2000; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Dec. 7, 2000–Feb. 25, 2001.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 2009, drawn by Roland Lusk, Eileen Jeng, and Jason Stec, varnished by John Hogan, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, October 2015-to present, drawn by Roland Lusk, Kittisak Chontong, and Gwendolyn Zabicki, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Alicia Legg, ed., Sol LeWitt, with essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Bernice Rose, and Robert Rosenblum, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978), 86, cat. 150 (represented by Composite: Lines in Four Directions in Single, Double, Triple, and Quadruple Combinations, 1969, pen-and-ink drawing).
- Danielle Rice and Andrea Miller-Keller, Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings: 1968–1981, exh. brochure (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1981), n.p. (by error as 1969).
- Susanna Singer, ed., Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings, 1968–1984 (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984), 44; 45, cat. 63 (represented by pen-and-ink drawing); 52, 166, 198, 201.
- Sol LeWitt and Lorena Martínez de Corral, Sol LeWitt: Dibujos Murales/Wall Drawings, exh. cat. (Madrid: Caja de Madrid, 1996), 66, 75, 126.
- Gary Garrels, ed., Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, with essays by Martin Friedman, Andrea Miller-Keller, Brenda Richardson, Anne Rorimer, John S. Weber, and Adam D. Weinberg, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 158, cat. 78 (represented by Composite Series [set of five], 1971, silkscreen, color ill.), 404.
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