Conceptual Art Darboven, Hanne 18-part work. For Sol LeWitt (October). 1990. 17 sheets in black pen and offset lithography on thin vellum, one sheet as a C-print on Kodak photographic paper. Each measuring 29.5 x 21 cm and 29.7 x 20.7 cm respectively. Mounted on a folded sheet inscribed by the artist. – Overall in very good condition and exceptionally clean. The work ‘For Sol LeWitt’ forms part of a series of works that Hanne Darboven produced in several monthly variations. This 17-page notation for the month of October is both a tribute and a conceptual manifesto: It was Sol LeWitt who arranged Darboven’s first exhibition in New York and who formed a kind of elective affinity with her as two conceptual artists who understood time, seriality and writing as pictorial means. Darboven’s handwritten numerical systems of additive columns, cross-sums and total sums make the passage of time visible; the accompanying colour photograph provides a visual anchor point within the abstract numerical structure and, for Darboven, represents the surrounding world, the measurement of which she has dedicated herself to. An 18-part work. 17 sheets drawn in black pen and ink as well as offset lithographs on thin vellum, plus one C-print on Kodak photographic paper. Enclosed in a folded sheet inscribed by the artist. – Overall in very good condition and exceptionally clean. - The work “For Sol LeWitt” forms part of a series of works that Hanne Darboven produced in several monthly variations. The 17-page notation, combined with a photograph of an abstract object in the centre of her studio, is both a tribute and a conceptual manifesto: it was Sol LeWitt who organised Darboven’s first exhibition in New York and who formed a kind of elective affinity with her as fellow conceptual artists who understood time, seriality and writing as pictorial means. Darboven’s handwritten numerical systems of additive columns, cross-sums and total results make the passage of time visible; in “For Sol LeWitt”, this system spans a full month. The accompanying colour photograph provides a visual anchor point within the abstract numerical structure and functions for Darboven as the world being measured.