About this artwork
This monoprint was made in an end-grain block of cherry wood. There is a clear relationship between the forms here and Gabo’s sculpture at that time. Through fine hatched and stipple marks, he managed to suggest different levels of transparency. It seems to be the only one of the five monoprints made in 1950 which was preceded by a drawing - a small watercolour, dating from 1949. Gabo’s later monoprints were first conceived on paper and then, often, transferred to a flat piece of plastic which acted as a template for the transfer of the drawing onto the wooden block. There are forty recorded examples of this work.
Published September 2021
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artist:
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title:Opus Three
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date created:1950
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materials:Monoprint in black ink on tissue paper
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measurements:19.80 x 14.30 cm (image size); 27.80 x 22.90 cm (base material size)
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credit line:Accepted from Nina Williams under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government and allocated to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2020
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accession number:GMA 5651
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gallery:
Naum Gabo
Naum Gabo
Gabo was born in Russia and trained in Munich as a scientist and engineer. He made his first geometrical constructions while living in Oslo in 1915. Gabo was influenced by scientists who were developing new ways of understanding space, time and matter. He responded to this in his sculpture by using...