LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Perspex, aluminium and stainless steel spring-wire, unique

Size Notes:

High

Markings:

signed 'Gabo' (on one of the outer edges of the Perspex)

Exhibited:

Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Cent sculpteurs de Daumier à nos jours, 1960, no. 86. Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Sammlungen Hans und Walter Bechtler, August - October 1982, no. 93.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Cent sculpteurs de Daumier à nos jours, Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, 1960, fig. 37, no. 86, illustrated. N. Gabo, Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Neuchâtel, 1961, p. 200, no. 86, illustrated. 'Die Sammlung der Brüder', Du Zutich Year 35, 1975, p. 27, no. 2. Exhibition catalogue, Sammlungen Hans und Walter Bechtler, Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1982, p. 62, no. 93, illustrated. S. Nash & J. Merkert, Naum Gabo, Sixty Years of Constructivism, New York, 1985, p. 237, no. 55.16.

Provenance:

Otto Gerson & Claude Bernard Haim, by whom acquired from the artist in December 1959. with Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, where purchased in November 1960. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 19 June 2013, lot 360.