LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Perspex with nylon monofilament

Size Notes:

without base

Edition:

unique

Markings:

signed with monogram and signed 'Gabo' (on the edges); bears signatures

Exhibited:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 270 and 364, no. 93, pl. 160 (illustrated).

Literature:

E.H. Ramsden, Sculpture: Theme and Variations, London, 1953, p. 45, pl. 101 (another version illustrated). K. Saltmarche, “Notes on Special Exhibitions: Sculpture in Our Time,” The Art Quarterly, vol. XXII, no. 4, Winter 1959, p. 352 (another version referenced). “The Hirshhorn Approach,” Time, vol. LXXX, 5 October 1962, p. 77. E.B. Feldman, Art as Image and Idea, Englewood Cliffs, 1967, p. 363 (another version illustrated). W.H. Hale, The World of Rodin, 1840-1917, New York, 1969, p. 184 (another version illustrated). J. Clapp, Sculpture Index, vol. 2, New Jersey, 1970, p. 411. E.B. Feldman, Varieties of Visual Experience, New York, 1972, p. 344 (another version illustrated). C. Sanderson and C. Lodder, Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism Including Catalogue Raisonné of the Constructions and Sculptures, Dallas, 1985, p. 231, no. 48.16. S.P. Russell, Art in the World, Fort Worth, 1993, p. 395-396 (another version illustrated).

Provenance:

Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, acquired directly from the artist, 1969 Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1974