Linear Construction in Space No. 2, 1954

Not on View

Medium

Perspex with nylon monofilament

Dimensions

overall: 36.2 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm (14 1/4 x 11 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of George and Edith Rickey

Accession Number

1991.149.1

Artists / Makers

Naum Gabo (artist) Russian, 1890 - 1977

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Inscription

at one end incised: G (in cyrillic) 1954 / GaBo

Provenance

Commissioned April 1954 by Helen McAuslan [d. 1970?], McLeod, Montana;[1] bequeathed August 1970 to Mr. and Mrs. De Weese, Bozeman, Montana; consigned (?) May 1979 to (Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles); sold 4 January 1980 to Mr. and Mrs. George Rickey, East Chatham, New York;[2] gift 1991 to NGA.

[1] Provenance given in Nash, Steven A., and Jörn Merkert, eds., Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism, Exh. cat. Dallas Museum of Art, travelling exhibition, 1985: 236, no. 55.7; 16 April 1954 letter from Helen McAuslan to the artist; 30 July 1954 letter from the artist to Helen McAuslan. In 1957 Gabo listed the owner of this version erroneously as "Miss McLeod."

[2] Details of the provenance have been confirmed by George Rickey.

Associated Names

Asher/Faure Gallery
De Weese, Mr. and Mrs.
McAuslan, Helen
Rickey, George, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1974: Extended loan to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 1974-1979.

1980: Shown periodically at the Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, with the Rickey Collection of Constructivist Art, 1980-1991.

1985: Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism, Dallas Museum of Art, travelling exhibition, 1985-1987, no. 55.7, 236.

Bibliography

1985: Nash, Steven A. and Jörn Merkert, eds. Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism. Exh. cat. Dallas Museum of Art, traveling exhibition, 1985: 236, no. 55.7.