Serial project # 1, 1966

LEWITT, Sol (Hartford, 1928 – New York, 2007), offprint from Aspen, no. 5+6, 1967. 20 × 20.2 cm. Paperback, [12] pp. White cover with black title. Artist’s book, entirely illustrated with diagrams, project drawings, and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Text by Sol LeWitt. LeWitt’s first artist’s book. Print run not stated. First edition. Bibliography: Sol Lewitt, Sol Lewitt Books 1966–1990, Frankfurt am Main–Cologne, Portikus–Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 1990, p. [64]; Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele De Donno, Sol Lewitt artist’s books, Foligno, Edizioni Viaindustriae, 2009, p. 28; Bruno Tonini, Sol LeWitt: libros. El concepto como arte, Santander, Archivo Lafuente / Ediciones La Bahía, 2014, p. 53, cat. 1. Published by Aspen magazine as a booklet housed with other multiples in a special cardboard box, on the occasion of the installation held at the Dwan Gallery in Los Angeles in April 1967. “LeWitt’s first publication was called ‘Serial Project No. 1, 1966’. It was a sixteen-page pamphlet devoted to the four-part set of nine sections, which has come to be called the ‘ABCD Piece’. Each group comprises variations on open and closed forms. LeWitt’s characteristic format of a line defining the margins is introduced here. He uses line drawings and diagrams opposite text and, in four double-page spreads, illustrates the thirty-six variations in grids of nine sections.” (Sol Lewitt, edited by Alicia Legg, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1978, p. 10.).…