Monoprint from wood engraving on paper
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Opus 6
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Presented by the artist 1971
abstraction
geometric
irregular forms
non-representational
paper print monoprint from wood engraving
25 January 2020 – 3 May 2020
2020-05-03
25 January 2020 – 3 May 2020
2020-05-03
2020-01-25
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2020-01-25
Naum Gabo: Realistic Manifesto
Exhibition
[no title]
image: 385 × 333 mm
Presented by the artist 1971
<strong>Naum Gabo</strong> 1890-1977
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gabo-no-title-p02006" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02006</span></a> <strong>Opus 6</strong> <em>c</em>.1955-6
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Inscribed 'Opus 6' b.l. and 'Gabo' b.r.<br/>
Wood engraving, 15 1/8 x 13 1/8 (38.3 x 33.3) on paper 23 7/8 x 19 1/8 (60.8 x 48.4)<br/>
Presented by the artist 1971<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Michael Mazur, 'The Monoprints of Naum Gabo' in <em>Print Collector's Newsletter</em>, IX, No.5, 1978, pp.149-51<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> Herbert Read and Leslie Martin, <em>Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings</em> (London 1957), pl.131 (another, slightly different impression)
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Gabo wrote on 28 April 1968 that this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> does not belong to the same series as 'Opus 1-5' [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P02001" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P02001');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P02001</span></a>-5] as it is much larger. 'I made "Opus 6" later, about 1955-56 as a sketch for the bas-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> which I did for the lobby of the US Rubber Building in Radio City, NY.' Then on 21 June 1972 he added that it was the original idea for the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a> and was made in London.
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Michael Mazur suggests that the design comes from <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> made for the sculptural commission before it was actually constructed (in 1956) and records that there are 31 signed examples, two unsigned, and at least one in a private collection. These include seven major variations.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.260, reproduced p.260

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2004-09-14T00:00:00
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abstraction geometric irregular forms non-representational