Artspace | Gala Art Auction 2007



	Live Auction Overview Donald Baechler Melissa Brown Mark Dion Walker Evans Kirsten Hassenfeld Lisa Kereszi Sol LeWitt Willard Lustenader Sam Messer Christopher Mir Tracey Snelling Eve Stockton Robert Taplin Karin Weiner Barnaby Whitfield Philip Johnson Glass House Robert Adams and Judith Joy Ross A Surprise From Guy Bennett Raffle Items The Yale Press British Art Center Tea	detail Sol LeWitt Schematic for Muybridge II, 1964/1969, published in 1970 by Multiples, Inc., New York, NY. Value: $850 Donated by Suzanna Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds Sol LeWitt, born in 1928 to Russian immigrants in Hartford, Connecticut, passed away on April 8, 2007. An artist working predominantly with painting, drawing, and structures (a term he preferred to sculpture), he is considered a founder of minimal and conceptual art styles: much of his work involved simple, geometric shapes. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1949, and was given his first retrospective by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 1978-79. His most recent retrospective was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2000, and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of American Art in New York. LeWitt found inspiration from Eadweard Muybridge, a photographer working in the late 19th century. Regarding Muybridge, LeWitt once said “the idea that all of the parts were only the result of the basic idea, but that each individual part was equally important, and that all parts were equal—nothing hierarchical.” “Schematic for Muybridge II, 1970” donated by Suzanne Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds, was published in 1970 by Multiples, Inc., New York, NY, as an edition of 69. It is LeWitt’s homage to Muybridge’s studies of animals and humans in motion. Sol LeWitt's generosity was legendary, impacting hundreds and hundreds of artists and cultural institutions. For example, he was instrumental in helping Artspace launch its acclaimed Summer Apprenticeship program for New Haven teens., now in its seventh year. It is one of our core programs helping develop New Haven's next generation of artists and audience.