
Wall Drawing #821: A black square divided horizontally and vertically into four equal parts, each with a different direction of alternating flat and glossy bands
Sol LeWitt · 1997
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 9, 2006.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Ace Gallery, Sol LeWitt: Wall Paintings, 1997, Apr. 19–Aug. 30, 1997, drawn by Artistiedes Dé Leon, Sachiko Cho, Derek Edwards, Naomi Fox, Henry Levine, Sunhee Lim, Jason Livingston Emil Memon, Travis Molkenbur, and Carolline Rothwell, no cat.
- London, Lisson Gallery, Sol LeWitt, May 21–July 4, 1998, no cat.
- Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sol LeWitt: Wall Pieces [John Kaldor Art Project 11], July 30–Nov. 29, 1998, no cat. no.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, Feb. 19–May 30, 2000, cat. 229 (color ill.); Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, July 22–Oct. 22, 2000; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Dec. 7, 2000–Feb. 25, 2001.
- North Adams, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, Nov. 16, 2008–2033, no cat. no,
- Metz, France, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Sol LeWitt: Dessons muraux de 1968 à 2007, Mar. 7, 2012–July 29, 2013 (extended to Aug. 12, 2013), cat. 107 (color ill.).
Literature
Published references
- James Rondeau, “Sol LeWitt,” in Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), 151 (color ill.).
- Nicholas Baume, Sol LeWitt: Wall Pieces [John Kaldor Art Project 11], exh. cat. (Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1998), 4, (ill.); 15.
- 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), 249, cat. 229 (color ill.); 410.
- Susan Cross and Denise Markonish, eds., Sol LeWitt: 100 Views, exh. cat. (North Adams, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009: 210, ( color ill.), 246.
- Béatrice Gross, ed., Sol LeWitt, trans. Natasha Edwards and Miriam Rosen, exh. cat. (Metz: Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2012), 84; 190, cat. 107 (color ill.).
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