Signed – Gabo. Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. Harvard University Press, 1957
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Townsend. Naum Gabo, March 13th 1967.”
The first definitive account of Gabo's work including a fold-out facsimile of the "Realist Manifesto" (Russian text and English translation) in which the principles of constructivism were outlined. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine in red. With worn dust jacket. Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in a folding blue card box at rear. Also includes a photocopy of Gabo’s last poem, a signed card from Gabo’s daughter, and another from the Berlinische Galerie.
Title: Gabo. Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings.
Artist/Author: Herbert Read and Leslie Martin.
Publisher: Published by Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
Publication date 1957
Format Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 193
Images: over 100 plates, 16 in colour and 10 in colour 3D.
Language: English
Condition: Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in rear pastedown. Spine bumped, dust jacket rubbed, chipped and torn to edges with losses to top and bottom edges of both front and rear panels. One tissue guard loose. The tipped-in list of stereoscopic reproductions has been taped down and has been annotated.
Provenance: The Archive of Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04632 84
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Townsend. Naum Gabo, March 13th 1967.”
The first definitive account of Gabo's work including a fold-out facsimile of the "Realist Manifesto" (Russian text and English translation) in which the principles of constructivism were outlined. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine in red. With worn dust jacket. Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in a folding blue card box at rear. Also includes a photocopy of Gabo’s last poem, a signed card from Gabo’s daughter, and another from the Berlinische Galerie.
Title: Gabo. Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings.
Artist/Author: Herbert Read and Leslie Martin.
Publisher: Published by Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
Publication date 1957
Format Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 193
Images: over 100 plates, 16 in colour and 10 in colour 3D.
Language: English
Condition: Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in rear pastedown. Spine bumped, dust jacket rubbed, chipped and torn to edges with losses to top and bottom edges of both front and rear panels. One tissue guard loose. The tipped-in list of stereoscopic reproductions has been taped down and has been annotated.
Provenance: The Archive of Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04632 84
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Townsend. Naum Gabo, March 13th 1967.”
The first definitive account of Gabo's work including a fold-out facsimile of the "Realist Manifesto" (Russian text and English translation) in which the principles of constructivism were outlined. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine in red. With worn dust jacket. Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in a folding blue card box at rear. Also includes a photocopy of Gabo’s last poem, a signed card from Gabo’s daughter, and another from the Berlinische Galerie.
Title: Gabo. Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings.
Artist/Author: Herbert Read and Leslie Martin.
Publisher: Published by Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
Publication date 1957
Format Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 193
Images: over 100 plates, 16 in colour and 10 in colour 3D.
Language: English
Condition: Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in rear pastedown. Spine bumped, dust jacket rubbed, chipped and torn to edges with losses to top and bottom edges of both front and rear panels. One tissue guard loose. The tipped-in list of stereoscopic reproductions has been taped down and has been annotated.
Provenance: The Archive of Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04632 84
