Naum Gabo

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Description

Naum Gabo
Construction in Space: Suspended
incised 'N. Gabo' (on the base of the sculpture)
Perspex, stainless steel spring-wire, phosphor-bronze and aluminium
27 by 30.5 by 27 cm. 10 5/8 by 12 by 10 5/8 in.
Conceived in 1955-57 and executed in the 1970s

Provenance

Private Collection, London.

Exhibited

Lugano, Galleria Pieter Coray, Naum Gabo, 1989 (illustrated, p. 38, no. 12, p. 63). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galerie de France, 1990.

Literature

Colin Sanderson & Christina Lodder, 'Catalogue raisonne of the Constructions and Sculptures', in Steven A. Nash & John Merkert (eds.), Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism, Munich, 1985 (illustrated, p. 250, CR no. 70.16).