Naum Gabo
Linear Base-Relief (on Black Perspex Base)
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March 5, 02:30 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Bid
35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Naum Gabo
1890 - 1977
Linear Base-Relief (on Black Perspex Base)
inscribed Gabo
Perspex with nylon monofilament on black Perspex base, on integral black Perspex sheet
relief: 38 by 30 by 16 cm. 15 by 11¾ by 6¼ in.
overall including integral black Perspex sheet: 49 by 49 cm. 19¼ by 19¼ in.
overall with Perspex box: 49.8 by 49.8 cm. 19⅝ by 19⅝ in.
Conceived and executed circa 1961. This work is a unique variant from a series of 7.
Otto Gerson Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist in August 1962)
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York (acquired in 1963)
Acquired from the above circa 1980 by the present owner
Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte and Zurich, Kunsthaus, Reliefs: Formprobleme zwischen Malerei und Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, 1980, no. 121, p. 208, illustrated
Steven Nash and Jörn Merkert, eds., Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism including Catalogue Raisonné of the Constructions and Sculptures, Dallas, 1985, no. 66.7, p. 244
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