Paolozzi Eduardo (1924)

Aliases: Eduardo Paolozzi; Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi

Professions: Sculptor; Lithographer

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)
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SOLD FOR £120,000 SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI R.A. (1924 - 2005) MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE 145cm x 183cm x 101cm (57in x 72in x 43.6in)
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(b Leith, nr Edinburgh, 7 March 1924). British sculptor, collagist, printmaker, film maker and writer. Born of Italian parents, he attended Edinburgh College of Art in 1943 with a view to becoming a commercial artist. After brief military service, in 1944 he attended St Martin’s School of Art in London, and from 1945 to 1947 he studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art (then based in Oxford). While in Oxford he saw ethnographic sculpture at the Pitt Rivers Museum and also became friendly with William Turnbull and Nigel Henderson. The influence of art from non-Western cultures is evident in such early works as Fisherman and Wife (ink, wash and collage, 1946; London, Tate). In 1947 he had his first one-man show at The Mayor Gallery Ltd in London, and in the summer of that year he moved to Paris. He remained there until 1949, meeting artists such as Arp, Braque, Brancusi, Giacometti, Jean Hélion, Léger and Tristan Tzara. He was attracted to Surrealist art and ideas and was also impressed by the art brut of Dubuffet. In the late 1940s he made various sculptures inspired by Surrealism, such as Forms on a Bow (brass, 1949; London, Tate), which consists of biomorphic forms and reveals a knowledge of Giacometti’s work, and also produced a number of collages, such as Composizione par Parere (1948; artist’s col., see 1984–5 exh. cat., p. 98), which blend the incongruous juxtapositions of Surrealism with Paolozzi’s interest in images of modern machinery.

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