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Construction, Opus One

Naum Gabo

Construction, Opus One

1949

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Naum Gabo

Construction, Opus One

1949

Physical Qualities Wood engraving with monoprint inking printed in brown, Sheet: 234 x 179 mm. (9 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.) Image: 74 x 73 mm. (2 15/16 x 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Print Fund
Object Number 1950.176.3
Graham Williams, ed. "Naum Gabo Monoprints from engraved woodblocks and stencils," Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge and Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, travelled to University of Massachusetts, Amherst (3 February - 17 March 1989) and BMA (29 August - 22 October 1989).

Lourenco Manuel Williams Egreja, "The History of Naum Gabo's Commissions in the United States of America," 2002 MA Thesis, City COllege of the City University of New York. See Vertical File for BMA sculpture, 1951.148.

Inscribed: lower center in graphite: "Gabo / op.1 / My fourth print of the first woodcut / G."

Artist

Naum Gabo

1889–1976

born Bryansk, Russia 1890; died Waterbury, CT 1977
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