Lithograph on paper
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Composite Series (set of 5)
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Purchased 1971
abstraction
geometric
monochromatic
non-representational
paper print lithograph
[no title]
image: 355 × 355 mm
Purchased 1971
<em>This catalogue entry discusses a group of works.</em>
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<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-p07061" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07061</span></a>-5 <strong>Composite Series (Set of five, black/white)</strong> 1971
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Set of five screenprints in black<br/>
<span>P07061</span> Inscribed '35/40' b.l. and 'LeWitt' b.r.<br/>
Screenprint, 13 7/8 x 14 (32.5 x 35.6) on paper 20 1/8 x 20 1/8 (51 x 51)<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-p07062" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07062</span></a> Inscribed '37/40' b.l. and 'LeWitt' b.r.<br/>
Screenprint, 14 1/8 x 9 3/8 (36 x 23.8) on paper 20 1/4 x 20 (51.3 x 50.8)<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-p07063" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07063</span></a> Inscribed '39/40' b.l. and 'LeWitt' b.r.<br/>
Screenprint, 14 x 14 (35.5 x 35.5) on paper 20 1/8 x 20 (51 x 50.8)<br/>
<strong>P07064</strong> Inscribed '36/40' b.l. and 'LeWitt' b.r.<br/>
Screenprint, 14 1/4 x 14 (35.8 x 35.5) on paper 20 1/8 x 20 (51.2 x 50.8)<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-p07065" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07065</span></a> Inscribed '38/40' b.l. and 'LeWitt' b.r.<br/>
Screenprint, 13 7/8 x 14 (35.2 x 35.5) on paper 20 1/8 x 20 (51 x 50.8)<br/>
Purchased from the artist through the Lisson Gallery (Gytha Trust) 1971<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Sol LeWitt</em>, Lisson Gallery, London, June-July 1971 (no catalogue)<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> <em>SolLeWitt: Graphik 1970-1975</em> (Kunsthalle, Basle, and Verlag Kornfeld und Cie, Bern 1975), No.S.4, repr. pp.6-8
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These <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprints</span></a> are based on four directions of line (vertical, horizontal, diagonal from right to left and diagonal from left to right), which are stated in the first <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> (<span>P07061</span>) and presented in all their possible permutations in the suite.
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In print 1 (<span>P07061</span>) they are presented in all combinations of one.<br/>
In print 2 (<span>P07062</span>) they are presented in all combinations of two.<br/>
In print 3 (<span>P07063</span>) they are presented in all combinations of three.<br/>
In print 4 (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P07064" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P07064');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P07064</span></a>) they are presented in all combinations of four.
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Print 5 (<span>P07065</span>) is a summary, in a single print, of the previous four, i.e. it presents on a single sheet all the possible permutations:
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One's in line (top)<br/>
Two's in line 2<br/>
Three's in line 3<br/>
Four's in line 4 (bottom)
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This series was published by the artist, who made a page of lines, and then the printer, John Campione, made a screen which he used in the spaces and combinations that LeWitt specified. There is also 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 35 in yellow (S.5). LeWitt told the compiler in May 1973 that yellow is the only colour he has used on its own for editions of prints; he likes it because it is the least graphic of the primary colours and blends best with 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>.
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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.430-1, reproduced p.430


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abstraction geometric monochromatic non-representational