Donald Judd
Donald Judd
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Donald Judd
Donald Judd

Untitled

9 x 12 inches
Donald Judd

Untitled

1973
Color lithograph on 100% rag paper
paper: 9 x 12 inches
frame: 10 x 13 1/2 inches
Edition of 300
Signed and numbered in pencil lower right.
Stamped on verso "© Copyright 1973 By Donald Judd"
Stamped on verso "Printed At Styria Studio"
Printer Styria Studio Publisher Experiments in Art & Technology
The work is from a drawing for Donald Judd’s Untitled (DSS 42), 1963, which was sold at Christie’s in 2013 for $14 million.

Literature
Schellmann, Donald Judd: Prints And Works In Editions, 1994, Appendix B.

Provenance
Collection of Ileana Sonnabend & the Estate of Nina Castelli Sundell
Christie’s New York, July 29, 2016, Lot 536, Sale Number 12209
Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above

Museum Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

In his 1965 essay "Specific Objects," Donald Judd championed recent work by a diverse range of artists such as Lee Bontecou, Mark di Suvero, Claes Oldenburg, and Frank Stella that was neither painting nor sculpture.

DONALD JUDD SCULPTURE

In his 1965 essay "Specific Objects," Donald Judd championed recent work by a diverse range of artists such as Lee Bontecou, Mark di Suvero, Claes Oldenburg, and Frank Stella that was neither painting nor sculpture. His endorsement of "the thing as a whole" rather than a composition of parts stemmed from what he saw as the strength and clarity asserted by singular forms, the unifying character of which resulted from the combination of color, image, form, and surface. Judd’s earliest freestanding sculptures were single, boxlike forms created in wood or metal. As Judd explored three-dimensional space in a more complex way, his goal became to "subordinate a work’s individual components to the whole".

Like the rectangular and cube shapes Judd began his career with, rows and progressions reoccur throughout his career. While spatial aspects were foremost for Judd, color and materials always remained central to his conception of art. Judd’s work contains a rich array of industrial materials, such as stainless steel, aluminum, and translucent plexiglas, the varied surfaces and finishes of which lend an elegance to an otherwise austere materials

Donald Judd Untitled (DSS 42), 1963

Donald Judd Untitled (DSS 42), 1963
light cadmium red oil and black oil on wood with galvanized iron and aluminum
76 x 96 x 11¾ inches