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Wall Drawing 590A

1989

Sol LeWitt

(American, 1928–2007)
Culture
America
Medium
color ink wash
Measurements
Overall: 543.6 x 1240.8 cm (214 x 488 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the LeWitt Family in honor of Agnes Gund 2012.66
Copyright
© The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
224A Contemporary Corridor
Print
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Description

From the 1980s onward a variety of simple geometric shapes emerge as autonomous motifs in Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings. By 1982 he had transformed planar figures into three-dimensional objects, playfully experimenting with repetition and the opposition between the two-dimensional plane and the drawn perspective. That same year he started to use ink washes for his wall drawings. LeWitt once said, "I would like to produce something I would not be ashamed to show Giotto." This statement clearly resounds in the luminosity and sensuality of surface of Wall Drawing #590A.
A wall-sized, color ink-wash painting shows three sides of a cube at the center, the upper side pink, the left yellow, and the right green in front of a solid, vibrant blue background. The bottom corner of the cube cuts off where the painting meets the floor.

Wall Drawing 590A

1989

Sol LeWitt

(American, 1928–2007)
America

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