Four Basic Colours and their Combinations

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‘ These drawings, using parallel lines closely drawn, were used to make a finite series. They also provided the vocabulary for further series. … In 1969 Peter Townsend, the editor of Studio International, published a book in which I made each page as a single variation, making a complete, finite series (Four basic kinds of straight lines). Later the color version of this book was published in 1971 by the Lisson Gallery, London’ Ref.1: p.33 and p.40

- Sol LeWitt ( Connecticut 1928 – New York 2007 ) was an American conceptual and minimal artist. He was a sculptor, painter and draftsman.

References

• Ref.1: Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno, Didi Bozzini, Cecilia Metelli, Marilena Bonomo; Sol LeWitt : Artist’s Books ; Sant’Eraclio di Foligno, Italy; 2009; Edizioni Viaindustrie