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Humanities and Social Sciences Library > Collections & Reading Rooms > Print Collection  Naum Gabo (born, Russia, 1890; died, United States, 1977) In 1950, encouraged to make wood engravings by William Ivins, the retired Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Belorussian-born sculptor Naum Gabo began to translate his three-dimensional work, constructed variously of wood, cardboard, metal, transparent plastic and glass, into two dimensions on paper, using the sparest of marks incised into a woodblock. Gabo then uniquely inked the block with a roller or by hand to establish a middle tone, and then spot printed with sticks, spoons or his fingers to create special and unique effects. Apparently pleased with this particular impression of Opus Ten, which he inscribed, “Epreuve d’artiste” (“artist’s proof), Gabo also appears to have directly inked the paper with a bold sweep of the roller, which breaks out beyond the confines of the block, as do the inky fingerprints in the margins. Photographic Services & Permissions Back
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