Naum Gabo
Construction with Alabaster Carving
1937-1938
Scroll
Naum Gabo
Construction with Alabaster Carving
1937-1938
Physical Qualities
Alabaster, Plexiglas, painted wood, 17 x 17 7/8 x 11 in. (43.2 x 45.4 x 27.9 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.380
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; Saidie A. May from the artist (through Leo Castelli, New York), 1949
Museum of Modern Art, NY, 'Gabo-Pevsner,' 1948, ill. p. 35.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern paintings and Sculpture," March 17- April 16, 1950, cat. 118.
MIT, 'Works of Gabo,' 1951.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Holland, 'Works by Naum Gabo,' Apr. 12-May 19, 1958; circulated to Amsterdam and London through late July 1958.
BMA, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-?
Oliver Shell, BMA, "Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," July 2010 - February 2011
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern paintings and Sculpture," March 17- April 16, 1950, cat. 118.
MIT, 'Works of Gabo,' 1951.
Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Holland, 'Works by Naum Gabo,' Apr. 12-May 19, 1958; circulated to Amsterdam and London through late July 1958.
BMA, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-?
Oliver Shell, BMA, "Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture," July 2010 - February 2011
Evening Sun, Baltimore, Jan. 7, 1950, ill. 'A Picture Book,' Baltimore: BMA, 1955, ill. p. 85.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 118, p. 26.
Herbert Read and Leslie Martin, 'Gabo,' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957, pl. 79 and 109.
William C. Seitz, 'Quality in Sculpture,' 'Studies in Honor of Gertrude Rosenthal Part One,' Annual III, Baltimore: BMA, 1968, no. 12, ill. p. 64.
John-Paul Stonard, "Abstraction in Sculpture," "The Burlington Magazine," November 2010, CLII, p. 769.
Inscribed: Face: signed lower right, inscribed in plexi, 'N. Gabo'
