About this artwork
No preliminary drawings exist for this work, suggesting that it was probably cut directly into the wood block. The block was probably cut from a piece of furniture. There are forty examples of this work.
Published September 2021
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artist:
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title:Opus Eleven
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date created:1965/8
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materials:Monoprint in copper brown ink on paper
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measurements:32.70 x 30.30 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 5661
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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...