Not on display
- Artist
- Naum Gabo 1890–1977
- Medium
- Graphite and ink on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 335 × 262 mm
frame: 424 × 322 × 15 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1977
- Reference
- T02155
Catalogue entry
Naum Gabo 1890-1977T02155 Sketch for a Mobile Construction c.1918
Inscribed in cyrillic 'N. Gabo' b.r.
Pencil and ink on card, 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 (33.5 x 26.2)
Presented by the artist 1977
Exh: Naum Gabo. The Constructive Process, Tate Gallery, November 1976-January 1977 (15) as 'Sketch for a Mobile Construction' c.1918
Gabo could not remember whether this drawing was connected with any specific project. It was one of a series of drawings done in Russia (information from Mrs Gabo, 17 August 1977).
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.233, reproduced p.233
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