William Leavitt
Body Space sketch
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September 29, 02:53 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
William Leavitt
b. 1941
Body Space sketch
Executed in 2012.
acrylic on paper
15 by 22 1/2 in. (38.1 by 57.15 cm.)
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Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
William Leavitt is part of a generation of Los Angeles artists integral to the development of Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s. His multidisciplinary and distinctive bodies of work, comprising paintings, works on paper, installations, and screenplays, draws largely from the singular Modernist architecture of Southern California, often alienated from its native context and increasingly accompanied by mysterious, futuristic iconography. Leavitt’s works challenge conventions of display through the integration of chance in both subject matter and presentation, as he often implements a system of predetermined images and wall arrangements.
Exhibitions of Leavitt’s work have been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles among many others. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
