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Basrelief on a circular surface, semispheric by 
																	Naum Gabo

Naum Gabo

( American, 1890 - 1977 )

Basrelief on a circular surface, semispheric

Naum Gabo

( Russian, 1890 - 1977 )

Basrelief on a circular surface, semispheric

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Materials:

assembly of plastic and cellulose nitrate

Size Notes:

44.6 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed 'N. gabo Luly 38' (on the base)

Exhibited:

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Naum Gabo-Antoine Pevsner, fvrier-avril 1948, p. 47 (illustr, p. 42; titr 'Spheric relief construction'; dat '1937'). Rotterdam, Museum Boymans et Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Gabo, avril-juin 1958, p. 35, no. 9 (illustr; titr 'Relief'; dat '1937'). Munster, Westflisches Landesmuseum fr Kunst und Kulturgeschichte et Paris, Muse d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Abstraction-Cration, 1931-1936, avril-septembre 1978, p. 153, no. 1 (illustr, p. 155; titr 'Construction'; dat '1937').

Literature:

S. Chermayeff, 'Naum Gabo', in Magazine of Art, Vol. 41, No. 2, Washington D. C., fvrier 1948, p. 56 (illustr; titr 'Spirit Relief Construction'; dat '1937').N. Gabo, Gabo, Constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings, Londres, 1957, p. 183 (illustr, pl. 65-66; dat '1937').S. Moholy-Nagy, 'Constructivism from Kasimir Malevich to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy', in Arts & Architecture, Vol. 83, No. 5, Los Angeles, juin 1966 (illustr, fig. 17; titr 'Spheric relief construction'; dat '1937').C. C. Sanderson et C. Lodder, Catalogue Raisonn of the Constructions and Sculptures of Naum Gabo in S. A. Nash et J. Merkert, ds., Naum Gabo, Sixty Years of Constructivism, Dallas, 1985, p. 227, no. 44 (illustr).M. Hammer et C. Lodder, Constructing Modernity, The Art & Career of Naum Gabo, New Haven et Londres, 2000, p. 259, no. 178 (illustr; titr 'Spheric Theme Relief Variant').

Provenance:

Wallace K. Harrison, New York (probablement acquis auprs de lartiste avant 1948 et jusqu' au moins 1958). Alain Tarica, Paris. Acquis auprs de celui-ci par la famille du propritaire actuel avant 1982.

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