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Naum Gabo

Vertical Construction No. 1

1963-1965

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Naum Gabo

Vertical Construction No. 1

1963-1965

Physical Qualities Copper alloy and steel spring wire, 39 x 10 x 7 in. (99.1 x 25.4 x 17.8 cm.)
Credit Line Ryda and Robert H. Levi Collection, Gift under the Will of Ryda H. Levi
Object Number 2009.189
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Estate of Ryda Levi; Collection Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Levi, Baltimore, by purchase, 1971; Marlborough Gallery, NY, 1966; the artist
"Naum Gabo," Tate Gallery, London, 1966, cat. # 31, ill. plate 14.

"Masters of the Twentieth Century," Marlborough Gallery, New York, April-May 1971; cat. # 15, ill.

Oliver Shell, BMA, "Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," July - February 2011.
"Naum Gabo : constructions, paintings, drawings at the Tate Gallery," London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966
"Innovative Programs," BMA Today, Fall 2010, p. 18, ill.
John-Paul Stonard, "Abstraction in Sculpture," "The Burlington Magazine," November 2010, CLII, p. 769

Inscribed: Corner of base: "gabo"

Artist

Naum Gabo

1889–1976

born Bryansk, Russia 1890; died Waterbury, CT 1977
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