While most recognised for his abstract, architectural and kinetic sculptures made of plastics, metal and glass, this drawing is a smaller-scale, intimate exploration of Gabo's Constructivist principles of colour and space.

In 2004, Annely Juda Fine Art staged an exhibition that reflected Gabo's belief that ‘Shapes, colours and lines speak their own language: 'They are events in themselves and in an organised construction they become beings – their psychological force is immediate, irresistible and universal’. His daughter Nina recounts an anecdote of her father taking his wife Miriam’s paintbox as his own insisting that every artist’s household should have some paint. She also recalls how her father – at the cost of his wife's blender – tried to grind lapis lazuli and other pigments to make his own colour.