Sol Lewitt - Irregular Grid
Year: 2000
Medium: Gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated lower right
Size: 22.75 x 6.5 in (57.8 x 16.5 cm)
Frame size: 27 x 10.75 in (68.6 x 27.3 cm)
About this work:
Sol LeWitt first became interested in the grid after encountering a book by Eadweard Muybridge (The Human Figure in Motion) which charted human movement through a grid of photographs. Inspired, LeWitt began experimenting with the grid in his own works around 1960; the grid would pervade his work for nearly 5 decades thereafter.
As he stated in 1969, the grid is “a way I think, of making some sort of order, but making a kind of order where everything is equal, nothing is superior and nothing is inferior.” [1]
[1]Patricia Norvell, “Sol LeWitt: June 12, 1969,” in Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, and Weiner, ed. Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001), 119.