SOL LEWITT: Works on Paper (1983 - 2003)
- NEW YORK, New York
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- June 05, 2012
Waterhouse & Dodd is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by acclaimed American artist, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Heralded as the pioneer of conceptual and minimal art, Sol LeWitt became known for transforming primary colors and geometric shapes into formal compositions that developed a certain complexity through spatial organization.
The selection of works on paper presented by Waterhouse & Dodd reveal the variety of techniques LeWitt employed during the final decades of his life and marks the first time many of them will be viewed in public. Consisting of gouaches, woodcuts, etchings and engravings, the works on view range from formal geometric studies to exuberant compositions in vivid colors that convey a kind of lyrical expressionism. As a survey of LeWitt’s later practice, these works testify to the innovation and evolution of the artist’s visual language.
Current museum exhibitions include Sol LeWitt: Colors at Museum Leuven in Belgium (June 21 – Oct. 14), Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings from 1968-2007 at the Centre Pompidou Metz in France (through July 29, 2013) and Sol LeWitt: A Wall Retrospective at Mass MOCA (through 2033). His public garden project Lines in Four Directions in Flowers was recently unveiled by The Philadelphia Museum of Art at the William at the M. Reilly Memorial in Fairmount Park, adjacent to the Museum’s Anne d’Harnoncourt Sculpture Garden.
Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut and relocated to New York City in 1953 to pursue his artistic career. Since 1965, his work has been the subject of over 500 solo museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. Major retrospectives of LeWitt’s work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery, London, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. His work is featured in many important public collections including the Guggenheim, New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Exhibition Dates: June 22nd - August 3rd, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 21st, 6 - 8pm
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Waterhouse and Dodd Fine Art is a leading international art dealership with two galleries in both London and New York and a representative in Paris. Our Impressionist and Modern art departments are located at 16 Savile Row in London and 50, East 72nd Street in New York. Our gallery in Cork Street, London has a program of Contemporary art exhibitions and is also the venue for our dealings in Modern British art. The gallery's new space at 985 Madison Avenue will be devoted to artists from the Post-War and Contemporary Art eras, as is our gallery in SoHo at 104 Greene Street. We exhibit at many of the world’s most important art fairs and also run one of the world’s most respected art advisory services, Fine Art Brokers
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