Naum Gabo 1890 - 1977

Naum Gabo was born in Bryansk, Russia in 1890. He studied medicine, engineering, philosophy and art history in Munich and in 1914 moved to Norway with his brother Antoine Pevsner. He returned to Russia in 1917 during the revolution and in 1920 published the Realist Manifesto. In 1939, at the outbreak of war, he moved to Cornwall and emigrated to USA in 1946 where he died in 1977.

works in the collection - 1

PAC/020

Between 1936 and 1946 he lived in England. Gabo and his wife Miriam moved to Carbis Bay, Cornwall shortly after Nicholson and Hepworth. In contrast to their resultant work, Gabo's reflected little of his new rural environment. 'Linear Construction No. 1' was the first sculpture in which he used string-like nylon filament . Made in St Ives, this work had a profound effect upon artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon and John Wells. Originally conceived as a large-scale public sculpture, it is one of seventeen versions that Gabo made over a twenty-year period.

Linear Construction No. 1, 1942-3