Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977)
Lot 13:
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Description
Naum Gabo (1890-1977)
Linear Construction in Space No. 2
perspex with nylon monofilament with black insets on an integral wooden base
39 x 28 x 28 cm. (excluding the wooden base)
42 x 32 x 32 cm. (including the wooden base)
Conceived in 1949 and executed in 1957; the base conceived in 1957-1958
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Sculpture, February-March 1958.
Rotterdam, Boymans Museum/Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Gabo, 12 April-23 June 1958, no. 18.
Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedammers tonen hun kunstbezit, 18 December 1959-16 February 1960, no. 194.
Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Collectie Piet en Ida Sanders. Leven met kunst, 30 June-21 October 2012.
Literature
H. Read (a.o.), Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Painting, Drawings, Engravings, London/Bradford 1957, no. 86, p. 184 (another example illustrated).
George Rickey, 'Naum Gabo 1890-1977', in: Artforum, vol. 16 (1977) no. 3 (November), pp. 22-27 (another example illustrated p. 25).
S. Nash and J. Merkert, Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism: Including Catalogue Raisonné of the Constructions and Sculptures, Munich 1985, no. 55.11, p. 236, as: Linear Construction in Space No. 2.
M. Hammer and C. Lodder, Constructing Modernity: the Art and Career of Naum Gabo, New Haven 2000, pp. 323-326 (another example illustrated p. 324).
P. Sanders, Herinneringen, Amsterdam, 2009, p. 116 (illustrated).
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Piet and Ida Sanders in 1956.
The Piet and Ida Sanders Collection
byChristie's
Amsterdam, Netherlands