About this artwork
This monoprint was cut in end-grain block of Florida boxwood. There are fifty-one recorded examples of this work. Gabo’s monoprints can call to mind planetary systems of microscopic organisms. However, writing to his friend Sir Norman Reid, director of the Tate Gallery in London, Gabo stated: ‘Never look for any symbolic meanings in the images of my work: there is no other meaning in them than the images themselves.’ Gabo asked that this sentence was published in a Tate Gallery catalogue about his work in 1976.
Published September 2021
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artist:
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title:Opus Nine
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Monoprint in blue ink on paper
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measurements:24.00 x 27.70 cm (image size); 28.00 x 39.80 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 5659
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glossary:
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...
