- Artist
- Naum Gabo 1890–1977
- Medium
- Plastics (cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate and polymethyl methacrylate), cork, metal and wood
- Dimensions
- Object: 610 × 279 × 584 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1977
- Reference
- T02145
Catalogue entry
Naum Gabo 1890-1977
T02145 Construction in a Niche
1930
Inscribed 'GABO' on wooden backing
Plastic, metals and cork set into wooden box, 24 x 11 x 23 (61 x 28 x 58.5)
Presented by the artist 1977
Exh:
Gabo: konstruktive Plastik, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, November 1930 (20) as 'Konstruktive Raumgestaltung für eine Wandnische' 1930; Constructions by N. Gabo, London Gallery, London, January 1938 (5) as 'Constructive Treatment for an Interior Niche' 1930; Gabo: Constructions in Space, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, March 1938 (5) as 'Constructive Treatment for an Interior Niche' 1930; Gabo-Pevsner, Museum of Modern Art, New York, February-April 1948 (works not numbered) as 'Construction in a Niche' 1930; Naum Gabo: The Constructive Process, Tate Gallery, November 1976-January 1977 (27) as 'In a Niche' 1928-9
Repr:
Herbert Read and Leslie Martin, Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings
(London 1957), p.42 as 'Construction in a Niche' 1930
This is an enlargement of the left-hand section of 'Model for "Double-Relief in a Niche" ' (T02170).
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.241-2, reproduced p.241
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