Three Part Variations Using Three Different by Lewitt Sol (4 results)

pp. (24). Illustrated with 12 line illustrations, with descriptions printed on each facing page.Artist?s book presenting an early serial piece by LeWitt, a floor-bound work 49 Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes (1967-68), generated according to the artist?s preordained algorithm. Published in an edtion of 1000 numbered copies. This is one of the first 500 copies signed in pen by Sol LeWitt on the colophon. [Ref. Germano Celant - Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972, pp. 74; Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno - Sol LeWitt Artist's Books, pp. 31]. Original wrappers. With some handling creases and minor sun staining, especially to right-hand edge of covers. A few numbers in the text circled in pen.

[26] pp.; 17 x 35.5 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size 1000; unsigned and numbered; offset-printed Sol LeWitt's first artist's book. Publication contains schematic drawings by LeWitt of three stacked cubes showing variations based on open sides with related alphanumeric numbering system used to execute the sequences. References : "Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 74. "Sol LeWitt : Books 1966 - 1990" Frankfurt / Cologne, Germany : Portikus Frankfurt / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 1990, pp. 64. "Sol LeWitt : Artist's Books" by Sol LeWitt, Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno, Didi Bozzini, Cecilia Metelli, Marilena Bonomo. Sant'Eraclio di Foligno, Italy : Edizioni Viaindustrie, 2009, pp. 31. Fair / Good. Light soiling to covers. Bumps to four corners of covers extending to interior pages. Contents clean. Numbered 740/1000.

Geh. 4° (35,5 x 17 cm), o. P.: 12 Bl. mit 12 Tafeln (davon 1 auf hinterem Innendeckel). Min. gebräunt, tlw. min. randknittrig, innen tadellos. EA. Ex. Nr. 15 der 500 Ex. der vom Künstler im Impressum signierten Vorzugsausgabe (bei einer Gesamtauflage von 1000 Ex.).

12 black & white illus. [24] pp. Very tall 8vo (169 x 356 mm.), orig. printed wrappers (some sunning), staple-bound. Zurich: Bruno Bischofberger, 1969. LeWitt's second "autonomous" artist's book i.e., not connected to an exhibition or part of another publication. This is one of 1000 copies printed, all of which were numbered (ours is no. 924), there were also 500 copies signed by LeWitt. 49 three-part variations was published by the Zurich gallerist Bruno Bischofberger, with whom LeWitt had his first solo presentation in February-March 1968. Bischofberger, along with Konrad Fischer and Heiner Friedrich, was one of the earliest European gallerists to engage and collaborate with LeWitt and other Conceptual artists. "Following Serial Project #1, 'The Xerox Book' and Set II A I-24, Sol LeWitt's fourth book is 49 Three-Part Variations, which was published in 1969 and is large and oblong in shape, its proportions being two squares wide by one square high. This doubling of the square format is approximately repeated with other books such as Schematic Drawings for Muybridge II, 1964 of 1970, Open Geometric Structures of 1979 and All Four Part Combinations of Six Geometric Figures of 1980. In each case the horizontal format is dictated by the content. 49 Three-Part Variations is the second of LeWitt's autonomous artist's books, and, again, is not an exhibition catalogue but more a catalogue of forms."Clive Phillpot, "Sol LeWitt's Books: Complete & Incomplete," in Booktrek: Selected Essays on Artists' Books (1972-2010) (2013), p. 261. A near fine copy; some discoloration from sunning to the upper wrapper and a few inoffensive marks to the spine, internally pristine. ? Maffei & de Donno, Sol LeWitt: Artists' Books (2009), p. 31. Sol LeWitt: Libros, El concepto como arte (2014) 4 (pictured p. 57).