Artspace 2005 Benefit Auction

The Live Auction will include
Sol LeWitt Print & Tour
Portrait by Steven DiGiovanni
Yale Art Gallery Tour
Yale Center for British Art Tour
Couch by Ezra Parzybok
Set of 10 Factory Photographs
by Angela Strassheim

And artwork by
Anni Albers
Josef Albers
Tom Burkhardt
Tom Friedman
April Gornik
Eric Hongisto
Emily Jacir
Clint Jukkala
Lori Nix
James Prosek
Tom Sachs
Wayne Thiebaud
William Wegman
Fred Wilson
and others to be announced

Sol LeWitt Print & Private Tour

Lines in Four Directions, Black/White, 2004
Linocut, Edition 98/100, 9 x 17”
Estimated value: $1,000
-- with --
A Private Tour of Sol LeWitt’s extensive personal art collection for up to 4 people. LeWitt has been collecting artwork since the 1950's. This is your chance to view an extraordinary collection that is not open to the public.

Tentative starting bid: $500

Sol LeWitt was born in Connecticut in 1928 and is perhaps Connecticut's most renowned living artist. He moved to New York and began his career in 1953 just as Abstract Expressionism was becoming popular. His early jobs included work in the design department at Seventeen Magazine and as a graphic designer for the architect I.M. Pei. By the early 1960s, LeWitt and other young artists in New York sought a style that differed from Abstract Expressionism. He began to create works that used simple shapes and explored the possibilities of repetition. Since the 1960s, LeWitt has emphasized ideas over psychological content; his work bridges Minimal and Conceptual art. LeWitt has had retrospectives at both MOMA and SFMOMA and his work can be found in museums and galleries around the world. LeWitt was instrumental in helping Artspace launch its acclaimed Summer Apprenticeship program, now in its fifth year. It is one of our core programs helping develop New Haven's next generation of artists and audience.

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Sol LeWitt Print & Private Tour

Lines in Four Directions, Black/White, 2004
Linocut, Edition 98/100, 9 x 17”
Estimated value: $1,000
-- with --
A Private Tour of Sol LeWitt’s extensive personal art collection for up to 4 people. LeWitt has been collecting artwork since the 1950's. This is your chance to view an extraordinary collection that is not open to the public.

Tentative starting bid: $500

Sol LeWitt was born in Connecticut in 1928 and is perhaps Connecticut's most renowned living artist. He moved to New York and began his career in 1953 just as Abstract Expressionism was becoming popular. His early jobs included work in the design department at Seventeen Magazine and as a graphic designer for the architect I.M. Pei. By the early 1960s, LeWitt and other young artists in New York sought a style that differed from Abstract Expressionism. He began to create works that used simple shapes and explored the possibilities of repetition. Since the 1960s, LeWitt has emphasized ideas over psychological content; his work bridges Minimal and Conceptual art. LeWitt has had retrospectives at both MOMA and SFMOMA and his work can be found in museums and galleries around the world. LeWitt was instrumental in helping Artspace launch its acclaimed Summer Apprenticeship program, now in its fifth year. It is one of our core programs helping develop New Haven's next generation of artists and audience.