[Wall Drawing #517] (Manuscript Plan)

[1987]. Faint foldlines and minor soiling to left margin; else near fine. With a manuscript note from Higginbotham to verso ("Black 1 bottle / white paper tape / 430"). A rare, behind-the-scenes artifact from LeWitt's conceptual apparatus.. Ballpoint pen drawing on sheet of watercolor paper (5.75 x 9.5 inches). A manuscript plan from Sol LeWitt, complete with color codes and measurements, for what would soon become Wall Drawing #517: Symmetrical Flat-Topped Pyramid with Color Ink Washes Superimposed, with a 15-inch (37.5 cm) Black Band on Each Side—first installed at Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University by David Higginbotham and Anthony Sansotta (February 1987). This very drawing is reproduced in the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné, where the editors distinguish plans from instructions and preparatory drawings, as "the final drawn or written representations followed by LeWitt's assistants... [Plans] are considered artworks in their own rights.