Gabo, Signed (11 results)

8vo; pp.88; illustrations, appendix, glossary, index; illustrated stiff stapled wrapper, light foxing to prelims., very good copy. . Signed by author,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Naum Gabo; Photography by Michael Duffett and David Nye (illustrator). 1st Edition. File this under 'Ouch, do I really want to sell this?'. Apparent first edition (NAP). Once listed, this will be the Only signed copy of this book for sale anywhere on the Internet. To find the artist's signature on any book is rare indeed. The signed inscription is to the former New York Times art critic John Russell. Mr. Russell wrote Mr. Gabo's obituary for the New York Times in 1977. This 63 page book was published by The Tate Gallery for the exhibition of 3 November--12 December 1976. There is a frontispiece photograph of the artist (and his dog) posing in front of one of his huge sculptures. The Foreword, which runs from page 9 to 20 is written by Sir Norman Reid. That is followed by an essay (pages 21-26) titled The Realistic Manifesto, 1920 written by Gabo and his brother, the sculptor Antoine Pevsner. There are 23 pages of photographs of his works followed by Biographical Notes & Principal Exhibitions (51-55). A seven-page Catalogue provides a short description of the works in the exhibition. The book concludes with a short Bibliography. The book is in very nice condition. You can see the covers in the photos. There's just a bit of light toning. There is one very tiny spot at the front bottom corner. There aren't any tears. The page edges are quite clean. The spine is not slanted. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The glossy pages are in excellent condition. They are very clean. There isn't any foxing. I'm not seeing any soiling anywhere in the text. There are two speck-sized spots on the blank side of the Bibliography page. The pages are not toned. There are no markings. No attachments. And with the exception of the artist's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. 'Naum Gabo, born Naum Neemia Pevsner (1890-1977), was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of 20th century sculpture. His work combined geometric abstraction with a dynamic organization of form in small reliefs and constructions, monumental public sculpture and pioneering kinetic works that assimilated new materials such as nylon, wire, lucite and semi-transparent materials, glass and metal. Responding to the scientific and political revolutions of his age, Gabo led an eventful and peripatetic life, moving to Berlin, Paris, Oslo, Moscow, London, and finally the United States, and within the circles of the major avant-garde movements of the day, including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, de Stijl and the Abstraction-Création group. Two preoccupations, unique to Gabo, were his interest in representing negative space--"released from any closed volume" or mass--and time. He famously explored the former idea in his Linear Construction works--used nylon filament to create voids or interior spaces as "concrete" as the elements of solid mass--and the latter in his pioneering work, Sculpture (Standing Waves), often considered the first kinetic work of art.' 'John Russell was a British American art critic. He was an unpaid intern at the Tate Gallery in 1940, but moved to the country after the gallery was bombed. During World War II he worked in Naval Intelligence for the Admiralty. There he met Ian Fleming, who helped him to secure a reviewing position at The Sunday Times. Art critic Hilton Kramer of The New York Times hired Russell in 1974. Russell was chief art critic there from 1982 to 1990. Gabo died less than a year after the Tate exhibition. Shortly after the exhibition, Russell wrote, 'he presented the Tate with a substantial number of his sculptures, models for sculptures, and drawings. It was a matter of particular pride with him that in 1971 he received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition not only of his life's work, but of his close association with Britain.'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Colour illustrated wraps/paperback. pp 172. Text in Spanish. Signed presentation from the author to Barbara Litwin with effusive sentiments in Spanish and loosely inserted his visiting card as consul in Ecuador with signed note to her. Slight soiling else VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Title - Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner /Author - Alexei Pevsner - Sandberg (graphic design) /Publisher - Augustin & Schoonman /Year - 1964 /Language - English /Binding - Paperback - Cover stained /Size - 19 x 26 cm /Pages - 56 /ISBN - Signed by Willem Sandberg. Signed by Author(s).

Pappband. Dust Jacket Condition: mit Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. Gr.-Oktav. Erste Auflage, 383 S. Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. Mit zahlr. farb. Abb. sehr gutes Exemplar. mit einem von der Photographin Gabriela Brandenstein und von Andre Herrler signiertes Foto (Digitaldruck). Signatur des Verfassers.

Große Einladungskarte zur Vernissage in Berlin am 6.7.2007 mit Abbildung ihrer Liaison I,2006, bildseitig eigenhändig signiert (dito : Autogrammkarte (blanko 16°, mit aufgezogenem Illustriertenbild von ihr bei der Arbeit) mit eigenhändiger Empfehlung, Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert Berlin, Sept 2007 Euro 45,-).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition In English. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 4to. First edition in English translation by George Heard Hamilton. pp.(6)192; 48 photographs & 122 plates (6 colour tip-ins); Original publisher's orange cloth a little bumped at lower spine else clean very good copy, the dust-wrapper lacks small pieces from head & tail of spine, bottom of backstrip bumped, otherwise well preserved in original card slip-case. Inscribed by Duchamp on the half title page of the book: 'Cher Gabo, de 1923 nos jours et quelles journes! Affectueusement Marcel 1960'. In their Realistic Manifesto, Moscow, 1920, Naum Gabo and his brother Antoine Pevsner first coined the term 'kinetic art' of which the earliest instance was perhaps Marcel Duchamp's 1913 sculpture, Bicycle Wheel. Antoine moved to Paris soon after and was joined by Gabo after he secured Diaghilev's commission to design sets & costumes for La Chatte, which opened in Monte Carlo in 1927 with music by Sauget and Balanchine's choreography. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO NAUM GABO. An excellent modernist art association. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Limited edition. 1/150. Quarto. Glossy b/w photo-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on the front cover, black lettering on the spine. Grey cloth boards with debossed white lettering on the front cover and spine. Housed in a cardboard slipcase. #41 from a limited edition of 150 copies, numbered on the colophon, and including a numbered and signed original print by the artist, laid in at the interior front cover. This finely produced monograph on Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890-1977), provides a comprehensive overview of his work across multiple media including constructions, sculptures, painting, drawings, and engravings. Includes b/w and color photographic reproductions of the artist's work throughout. Interior back cover contains a pocket housing a magnifying glass to view the artist's work. Final text pages include a biography and chronology of the artist's work. Includes introductory text at the front from English art historian Sir Herbert Edward Read and English architect Sir John Leslie Martin. Text throughout in French. Print with minor offsetting. Slipcase, dust jacket, binding and interior all in near fine condition overall.

Condition: Fine. Limited. Signed by Artist LIMITED EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH. 4to, 201 pp, fine in cloth in near fine pictorial dust jacket. Text in French. 135 illustrations, most b&w, some color. #51/150 copies of the French language edition (there were another 150 copies published in German). Includes a chronology and bibliography. With an original seven color lithograph laid-in, signed & numbered by Naum Gabo. Inserted in a pocket at rear are glasses for viewing Gabo's 3D/stereoscopic images. An important and uncommon monograph on Gabo, enhanced by the stunning original lithograph. (Photographs available upon request.).

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, "For Francine & Clive [Cleve] Gray, in friendship, N. Gabo, Jan 6th 1962." The first comprehensive review of Gabo's work including the original Russian text and English translation of the "Realist Manifesto" of which the main principles of constructivism was explained. Francine du Plessix Gray was a writer and literary critic, Cleve Gray was an artist and writer, and contributed "Naum Gabo Talks About Constructivism" to the magazine Art in America, November-December 1966, pp. 48-55. Quarto. Illustrated throughout with over 100 plates, 16 in colour and 10 in colour 3D. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine in red. With dust jacket. Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in rear pastedown. Spine bumped, edges very lightly toned, dust jacket rubbed and torn to edges with a larger chip to head of front panel, text underlined throughout with pencil and red crayon.

Naum Gabo, KBE (Naum Abramowitsch Pewsner; * 5. August 1890 in Brjansk, Russland; 23. August 1977 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA) war ein russischer Bildhauer des Konstruktivismus, der sich aber auch als Maler, Architekt und Designer betätigte. NAUM GABO - ANTOINE PEVSNER Kunstkatalog, 4°, Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, Introduction by Herbert Read, Text by Ruth Olson and Abraham Chanin. The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 1948, 9500 Expl. limitiert. - neben seinem Foto mit eigenhändiger Widmung,Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert.