Wood engraving on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Opus 5
Collection
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Presented by the artist 1967
abstraction
geometric
irregular forms
non-representational
paper print wood engraving
24 May 2008 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
24 May 2008 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
2008-05-24
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
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2008-05-24
Collection Display May - Sept 08
Collection based display
29 November 2010 – 2 May 2011
2011-05-02
29 November 2010 – 2 May 2011
2011-05-02
2010-11-29
Tate Britain (London, UK)
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2010-11-29
Gallery 93
Collection based display
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: 243 × 302 mm
Presented by the artist 1967
<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-p02005" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02005</span></a> <strong>Opus 5</strong> 1950
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Inscribed 'Gabo' b.r. and 'op 5' b.l., and stamped with monogram 'NG' b.r.<br/>
Wood engraving, 9 1/2 x 8 (24 x 20) on paper 12 x 9 1/8 (30.5 x 23.2)<br/>
Presented by the artist through the American Federation of Arts 1967<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Michael Mazur, 'The Monoprints of Naum Gabo' in <em>Print Collector's Newsletter</em>, IX, No.5, 1978, pp.149-50<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> Herbert Read and Leslie Martin, <em>Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings</em> (London 1957), pl.130 (a different but very similar impression)
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Michael Mazur says that this design was often referred to by the Gabos as the 'Constellations'. 'The figure, made of two intersecting planes, appears twice as if seen from different viewpoints, or moving into different positions in space. ... There are 26 titled and signed pieces, four signed and seven unsigned proofs and one presentation <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/proof" title="Glossary definition for 'Proof'"><span>proof</span></a> "For Miriam". At least four more are in public collections, owned by the Tate, Rotterdam, Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of Fine Arts in Boston'. The seven major variations include several with a speckled, meandering light section running through 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/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a>, and one with a repeated darkened centre like an afterimage within the open space of the print.
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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.256, reproduced p.256

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