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Untitled

Sol LeWitt American
Printer Printed by Jeryl Parker American
Publisher Published by Multiples/Goodman Gallery
1982
Not on view
LeWitt’s devotion to the cube and its formal possibilities played out across multiple media, from prints and drawings to sculpture and installation. With the total number of permutations fixed at twenty-four, Forms Derived from a Cube plots a relatively limited arc of sequential transformation, not unlike those in Wenzel Jamnitzer’s and Peter Flötner’s sixteenth-century works on view nearby. For LeWitt, cubes and geometric forms represented an alternative system of decision-making that absolved the artist of subjective choices, such that "the idea becomes the machine that makes the art."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Untitled
  • Series/Portfolio: From the series "Forms Derived from a Cube" (set of 24)
  • Artist: Sol LeWitt (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1928–2007 New York)
  • Printer: Printed by Jeryl Parker
  • Publisher: Published by Multiples/Goodman Gallery
  • Date: 1982
  • Medium: Aquatint and etching
  • Dimensions: sheet: 20 11/16 x 21 in. (52.5 x 53.3cm)
    plate: 17 11/16 x 17 15/16 in. (45 x 45.5cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Norman B. Colp and Marsha Stern-Colp, 1992
  • Object Number: 1992.1043.4
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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