Construction in the Third and Fourth Dimension is one of the last major works of Antoine Pevsner, elder brother of Naum Gabo and collaborator with him in the creation of the Constructivist movement upon their return to Russia during the early 1920s. While studying painting at the academies of Kiev and St. Petersburg, Pevsner first became absorbed with concepts of space employed in the icons of churches and monasteries in Novgorod, and subsequently he was attracted by the Impressionist and early School of Paris paintings. Arriving in the French capital in 1911 during the heyday of Cubist invention, he was impressed by the engineering magic of the Eiffel Tower
