Collection Using a Black, Hard Crayon, Put Fifty Small Dots at Random, over the Surface of the Stone.

Using a Black, Hard Crayon, Put Fifty Small Dots at Random, over the Surface of the Stone.

Sol LeWitt, Artist Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Publisher
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Using a Black, Hard Crayon, Put Fifty Small Dots at Random, over the Surface of the Stone.

1971

Sol LeWitt (Artist) American, 1928-2007 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Publisher) Canadian

Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper

Image: 20 × 20 inches (50.8 × 50.8 cm) Sheet: 28 × 28 inches (71.1 × 71.1 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund and National Endowment for the Arts Matching Museum Purchase Grant

F76.18.10

© Sol LeWitt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Signed, in pencil, lower right: LeWitt

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 6/25 Inscribed, lower center, printed in sepia: Using a black, hard crayon, put fifty small dots, at random, over the surface of the stone. Then connect each dot with a straight line. Print the result in four colors (yellow, black, red and blue) by turning the stone a quarter turn for each color. Inscribed, in pencil, lower center below drystamp, verso: NS 154

Drystamp, lower right corner: [printer's drystamp]

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1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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American Prints 1960-1985. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1986, p. 224.

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Sol LeWitt, Using a Black, Hard Crayon, Put Fifty Small Dots at Random, over the Surface of the Stone., 1971, lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund and National Endowment for the Arts Matching Museum Purchase Grant, F76.18.10.

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Using a Black, Hard Crayon, Put Fifty Small Dots at Random, over the Surface of the Stone.
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