Naum GaboModel for 'Spheric Theme with Centre' c.1937

Not inscribed
Tinplate, 4 x 3 1/4 x 3 (10 x 8.2 x 7.6)
Presented by the artist 1977
Exh: Naum Gabo: The Constructive Process, Tate Gallery, November 1976-January 1977 (51) as 'Model for "Spheric Theme" ' c.1937

See the note on . This model appears to have served as the prototype for the Tate's 'Bronze Spheric Theme' of c.1960 (T00826), as well as various other larger works.

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, p.248, reproduced p.248