Naum Gabo
Construction with Alabaster Carving
1937-1938
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Naum Gabo
Construction with Alabaster Carving
1937-1938
Physical Qualities
Alabaster, Plexiglas, painted wood, 17 x 17 7/8 x 11 in. (43.2 x 45.4 x 27.9 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.380
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; Saidie A. May from the artist (through Leo Castelli, New York), 1949
Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
Evening Sun, Baltimore, Jan. 7, 1950, ill. 'A Picture Book,' Baltimore: BMA, 1955, ill. p. 85.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 118, p. 26.
Herbert Read and Leslie Martin, 'Gabo,' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957, pl. 79 and 109.
William C. Seitz, 'Quality in Sculpture,' 'Studies in Honor of Gertrude Rosenthal Part One,' Annual III, Baltimore: BMA, 1968, no. 12, ill. p. 64.
John-Paul Stonard, "Abstraction in Sculpture," "The Burlington Magazine," November 2010, CLII, p. 769.
'Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture,' Sotheby's, NY, sale 6596, 9/28/1994, no. 80, ill. p. 81 ($25,300).
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.
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: Face: signed lower right, inscribed in plexi, 'N. Gabo'
