Etching on paper
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Straight Lines in Four Directions and All their Possible Combinations (Set of 15+1)
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sol-lewitt-1504" aria-label="More by Sol LeWitt" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sol LeWitt</a>
Presented by Riva Castleman, Nancy Jennings and Robert Feldman 1975
paper print etching
[no title]
image: 273 × 270 mm
Presented by Riva Castleman, Nancy Jennings and Robert Feldman 1975
<strong>Sol LeWitt</strong> born 1928
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01054" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01054</span></a>-69 <strong>Straight Lines in four Directions and all their possible Combinations (Set of 15 + 1)</strong> 1973
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Each print inscribed 'LeWitt 5/25' on verso b.r., and all except <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01069" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01069</span></a> also embossed 'K.' on recto b.r.<br/>
Fifteen etchings, each 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 (27.1 x 27.1), followed by a further sheet the same size with reduced versions of the fifteen prints in sequence, and printed specifications (as below)<br/>
Presented by Riva Castleman, Nancy Gillespie and Robert Feldman 1975<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> Nancy Gillespie and Robert Feldman of Parasol Press, Ltd.<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Series</em>, Tate Gallery, December 1977-January 1978 (15)<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> <em>SolLeWitt: Graphik 1970-1975</em> (Kunsthalle, Basle, and Verlag Kornfeld und Cie, Bern 1975), No.E.7, last (key) sheet repr. p.52
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The last sheet (<span>P01069</span>), which serves as a key to the set of fifteen, has a printed inscription which reads as follows:<br/>
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Sol LeWitt.<br/>
Fifteen <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>Etchings</span></a>. Straight lines in four directions and all their possible combinations, in an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> of twenty-five copies, with ten artist's proofs. Printed by Kathan Brown, Crown Point Press, Oakland. Published by Parasol Press, Ltd. New York City, 1973.
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Each <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> is square and has no more than a single line in any one direction; all the lines pass through the centre.
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<span>P01054</span> horizontal<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01055" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01055</span></a> vertical<br/>
<strong>P01056</strong> diagonal from left to right<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01057" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01057</span></a> diagonal from right to left<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01058" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01058</span></a> horizontal-vertical<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01059" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01059</span></a> horizontal-diagonal from left to right<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01060" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01060</span></a> horizontal-diagonal from right to left<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01061" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01061</span></a> vertical - diagonal from left to right<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01062" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01062</span></a> vertical - diagonal from right to left<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01063" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01063</span></a> diagonal from left to right - diagonal from right to left<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01064" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01064</span></a> vertical - horizontal - diagonal from left to right<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01065" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01065</span></a> vertical - horizontal - diagonal from right to left<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01066" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01066</span></a> horizontal - diagonal from left to right - diagonal from right to left<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01067" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01067</span></a> vertical - diagonal from left to right - diagonal from right to left<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-no-title-p01068" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01068</span></a> horizontal - vertical - diagonal from left to right - diagonal from right to left
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The lines were drawn by the artist on a copper plate with a hard ground on 7 April 1973. The first ten sets (including this one) were printed in 1974 and the rest of the edition some months later, in February-March 1975, using a slightly different <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Ink'"><span>ink</span></a> mixture which made the lines a little sharper. In both cases the printing was carried out by Kathan Brown and the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> used was Arches Satine <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> paper. The sets have been issued in a shallow box, without any label or inscription.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.432-3


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