Sol LeWitt Hartford, Connecticut 1928 - 2007 New York City

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Sol LeWitt - #3 (Aus: Black & Gray).
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Made in America | ONLINE ONLY
March 2023
VAN HAM
Est.: 2.500 - 3.500 EUR
Realised: not available
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Sol LeWitt - #4 (Aus: Black & Gray).
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Made in America | ONLINE ONLY
March 2023
VAN HAM
Est.: 2.500 - 3.500 EUR
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Sol LeWitt - Aus: Künstler gegen die Folter.
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Made in America | ONLINE ONLY
March 2023
VAN HAM
Est.: 1.000 - 1.500 EUR
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Sol LeWitt - Irregular Zigzag Bands
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Contemporary Edition: New York: Featuring the Collection of Kenwal Steel in Support of GLAAD
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 2.000 - 3.000 USD
Realised: 3.780 USD
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Sol LeWitt - Untitled (Brown)
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Contemporary Edition: New York: Featuring the Collection of Kenwal Steel in Support of GLAAD
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 2.000 - 3.000 USD
Realised: 3.276 USD
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Sol LeWitt - White Lines in Four Directions on Red, Yellow and Blue.
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Made in America | ONLINE ONLY
March 2023
VAN HAM
Est.: 2.000 - 3.000 EUR
Realised: 2.640 EUR
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Sol LeWitt - Brushstrokes. Horizontal and Vertical.
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Made in America | ONLINE ONLY
March 2023
VAN HAM
Est.: 5.000 - 7.000 EUR
Realised: 12.540 EUR
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Sol LeWitt - Complex Form with Black and White Bands
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Prints and Multiples
March 2023
Christies, London (Online Auction)
Est.: 4.000 - 6.000 GBP
Realised: 8.820 GBP
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Sol Lewitt - Kubus
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Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 2023
Christies, London
Est.: 30.000 - 50.000 GBP
Realised: 52.920 GBP
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Sol LeWitt - Plate #04, from Distorted Cubes
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Contemporary Edition: New York: Featuring the Collection of Kenwal Steel in Support of GLAAD
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 1.500 - 2.000 USD
Realised: 3.024 USD
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Sol LeWitt - Wavy Brush Strokes
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Contemporary Edition: New York: Featuring the Collection of Kenwal Steel in Support of GLAAD
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 25.000 - 35.000 USD
Realised: 52.920 USD
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Sol Lewitt - Irregular Grid
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Post-War & Contemporary Art
March 2023
Bonhams
Est.: 8.000 - 12.000 GBP
Realised: not available
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The artist Sol LeWitt

  • Representative of minimalism and pioneer of conceptual art.
  • Held a fascination for the serial representation of repetition.
  • The idea that preceded his work was more important to him than the work itself.

Sol LeWitt, born 09.09.1928 in Hartford, Connecticut as Solomon LeWitt, deceased 08.04.2007 in New York, was an American Minimalist artist and pioneer of Conceptual Art. LeWitt was fascinated by series consisting of repetitions. One of his early sources of inspiration was the series of moving sequences in the works of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. On the basis of these, he eventually created oil paintings, which, in addition to the photographic model, were above all influenced by LeWitt's enthusiasm for serial repetition.

He soon turned his attention to the cube as a form, which he tried to restage – this is how one of his most prominent works came into being: the Sculpture Series. The spatially arranged cubes, made of lattice bars and consisting of individual modules, resulted in a system as a whole. Later, LeWitt followed the sculptures with his now highly regarded large-scale, geometric and colourful wall paintings. He always created the Wall Drawings according to his systematic approach, for which he would later become known: The idea was always more important to him than the work itself.

Thus one of his most quoted statements is: »The idea becomes a machine that creates the art« – it is taken from his essay Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967). During his artistic development, LeWitt oriented himself primarily towards Bauhaus Constructivism and the geometric-abstract representations of the Dutch group De Stijl. From 1945 to 1949, LeWitt attended Syracuse University in New York before being stationed by the US Army in Korea and Japan in 1951. In 1953, he returned to New York and began studying at the Cartoonist and Illustration School.

In the 1960s, he worked in the museum shop of the Museum of Modern Art, where he made important contacts with artists such as Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold and Scott Burton. In 1971, he founded the art book publisher Printed Matter together with Lucy Lippard. LeWitt's works were shown at the documenta between 1968 and 1982 and are now part of the collections of the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Naples, the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich. He lived alternately in Chester, Connecticut, and Spoleto, Italy, until his death in 2007.

Der Künstler Sol LeWitt

  • Vertreter des Minimalismus und Vorreiter der Konzeptkunst.
  • Hegte eine Faszination für die serielle Darstellung von Wiederholungen.
  • Die Idee, die seiner Arbeit vorausging, war ihm stets wichtiger als das Werk an sich.

Sol LeWitt, geb. 09.09.1928 in Hartford, Connecticut als Solomon LeWitt, gest. 08.04.2007 in New York, war ein US-amerikanischer Künstler des Minimalismus und Vorreiter der Konzeptkunst. LeWitt hegte eine Faszination für aus Wiederholungen bestehende Serien. So stellte bereits eine seiner frühen Inspirationsquellen die Aneinanderreihung von bewegten Sequenzen in den Werken des Fotografen  Eadweard Muybridge dar. Auf ihrer Grundlage fertigte er schließlich Ölgemälde, die neben der fotografischen Vorlage vor allem durch LeWitts Enthusiasmus für serielle Wiederholung geprägt waren.

Alsbald widmete er sich dem Würfel als Form, den er neu zu inszenieren versuchte – so entstand eines seiner prominentesten Werke: die Sculpture Series. Die räumlich angeordneten Würfel, aus Gitterstäben gefertigt und aus einzelnen Modulen bestehend, ergaben als Ganzes ein System. Später ließ LeWitt den Skulpturen seine heute hoch angesehenen großformatigen, geometrischen und bunten Wandmalereien folgen. Die Wall Drawings schuf er stets nach seiner systematischen Vorgehensweise, für die er später bekannt werden sollte: Die Idee war ihm dabei stets wichtiger als das Werk selbst.

So lautet eine seiner meist zitierten Aussagen: »Die Idee wird zu einer Maschine, die die Kunst schafft« – sie ist seinem Essay Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967) entnommen. LeWitt orientierte sich während seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung vorrangig am Bauhaus-Konstruktivismus sowie an den geometrisch-abstrakten Darstellungen der niederländischen Gruppe De Stijl. Von 1945 bis 1949 besuchte LeWitt die Syracuse University in New York, bevor er 1951 von der US-Armee in Korea und Japan stationiert wurde. 1953 kehrte er nach New York zurück und nahm dort ein Studium an der Cartoonist and Illustration School auf.

In den 1960er-Jahren arbeitete im Museumsshop des Museum of Modern Art und knüpfte dort für ihn bedeutsame Kontakte zu Künstlern wie Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold und Scott Burton. 1971 gründete er gemeinsam mit Lucy Lippard  den Kunstbuchverlag Printed Matter. LeWitts Werke waren zwischen 1968 und 1982 jeweils auf der documenta zu sehen und gehören indessen u. a. zu den Sammlungen des Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Neapel und dem Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg. Er lebte bis zu seinem Tod 2007 abwechselnd in Chester, Connecticut, und in Spoleto, Italien.  

Sol LeWitt - Rectangle Within Two Different Color Bands
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Post-War to Present
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 2.000 - 4.000 USD
Realised: 3.780 USD
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Sol Lewitt - Untitled (Pyramid V)
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Post-War & Contemporary Art
March 2023
Bonhams
Est.: 7.000 - 10.000 GBP
Realised: not available
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Sol LeWitt - Titled Form
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 2023
Phillips, London Auction
Est.: 15.000 - 20.000 GBP
Realised: not available
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Sol LeWitt - Windows
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Post-War to Present
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 10.000 - 15.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Sol LeWitt - Brushstrokes
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Post-War to Present
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 200.000 - 300.000 USD
Realised: 226.800 USD
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Sol LeWitt - Irregular Grid
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New Now
March 2023
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 10.000 - 15.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Sol LeWitt - R 707 Map of London 2 - Area of London with St. James Park Hyde Park and Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park removed
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First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online
March 2023
Christies, New York (Online Auction)
Est.: 4.000 - 6.000 GBP
Realised: 11.340 GBP
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Sol LeWitt - Form derived from a cube
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Art of Collecting: A Pacific Island Connoisseur of Art and Design
March 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Realised: 13.860 USD
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Sol LeWitt - Plate 5, from Stars
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Prints & Multiples | Live OnlineAbstractions
February 2023
Bonhams
Est.: 1.500 - 2.500 USD
Realised: 1.913 USD
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Sol LeWitt - Sans titre - 1989
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Prints & Multiples Online
February 2023
Artcurial
Est.: 800 - 1.000 EUR
Realised: 1.050 EUR
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Sol Lewitt - Irregular Form
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Post-War & Contemporary Art Online
February 2023
Bonhams
Est.: 8.000 - 12.000 USD
Realised: 8.288 USD
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Sol LeWitt - Plate 27, from Twelve Forms Derived from a Cube
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Prints & Multiples | Live OnlineAbstractions
February 2023
Bonhams
Est.: 900 - 1.200 USD
Realised: 1.148 USD
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