About this artwork
The artworks GMA 5664, GMA 5665 and GMA 5666 are different impressions of the same engraved woodblock, with different levels of inking. In 1976 Gabo had the idea of issuing his twelve most resolved monoprints in a portfolio with a specially designed cover. He died the following year and the project was realised posthumously under the title Twelve Monoprinted Wood Engravings: these are the monoprints titled Opus One to Opus Twelve. Examples of all twelve prints were given by Gabo’s family to the National Galleries of Scotland in 2020, plus, in addition, these more experimental works which were not included in that portfolio. They may be among Gabo’s first woodblock experiments.
Updated 2021
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artist:
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title:Untitled (minimal composition)
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Monoprint in black ink on Japan paper
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measurements:20.00 x 13.80 cm (base material size)
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credit line:Accepted from Graham Williams under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government and allocated to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2020
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accession number:GMA 5666
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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...
