Wood engraving on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/naum-gabo-1137" aria-label="More by Naum Gabo" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Naum Gabo</a>
Opus 10
Bequeathed by Miriam Gabo, the artist's widow 1995
abstraction
geometric
irregular forms
non-representational
<p>In 1935 the Russian-born artist Naum Gabo, a pioneer of abstraction, arrived in England as a refugee. He influenced the development of Modernism in the 1930s and 1940s and was associated with the artists Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, his neighbours in the fishing village of St Ives during the Second World War. After the war he moved to the USA. There are strong holdings of Gabo's work in the Collection as a result of his stay in England and of his friendship with a previous Tate Director, Sir Norman Reid. Gabo's celebrated geometric constructions (see Archive display) examine the object in space. These wood engravings reflect his sculptural concerns in a two-dimensional format.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print 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
Opus 10
image: 305 × 356 mm
Bequeathed by Miriam Gabo, the artist's widow 1995
<p>In 1935 the Russian-born artist Naum Gabo,  a pioneer of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstraction</span></a>, arrived in England as  a refugee. He influenced the development of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/modernism" title="Glossary definition for 'Modernism'"><span>Modernism</span></a> in the 1930s and 1940s and was  associated with the artists Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, his neighbours in the fishing village of St Ives during the Second World War. After the war he moved to the USA. 
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There are strong holdings of Gabo's work in the Collection as a result of his stay in England and  of his friendship with a previous Tate Director,  Sir Norman Reid. Gabo's celebrated geometric  constructions (see Archive display) examine the object in space. These <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/wood-engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Wood engraving'"><span>wood engravings</span></a> reflect his <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>sculptural</span></a> concerns in a two-dimensional format. </p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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abstraction geometric irregular forms non-representational