Catalogue entry
T02242 Model for the Statue of Aphrodite in the Ballet 'La Chatte' 1927
Not inscribed
Plastic, 5 7/8 x 1 3/4 x 2 (15 x 4.5 x 5)
Presented by Mrs Miriam Gabo 1977
Prov: Naum Gabo, Middlebury, Conn.; Mrs Miriam Gabo, Middlebury
This small sculpture, the model for the statue of the goddess Aphrodite in the background of the ballet La Chatte, was found in a drawer in Naum Gabo's house shortly after his death, and was assumed at first to be by him. However the set for La Chatte was designed in collaboration with Pevsner [see T04146], and Gabo is on record as stating that this figure was the one part he did not make himself: 'The process of working was this; the model of the stage-setting and all the costumes, designs, and accessories presented to Diaghilev, with the exception of the statue of the goddess, were designed and made by Gabo. In this first model of the setting the place was left empty and this statue was done by Pevsner. I refused to make any naturalistic sculpture for the ballet as at that time I had already left behind me the period of figurative art and had no wish to return to it… (read more)
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