Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, R.A. (1924-2005)

Relief

Details

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, R.A. (1924-2005)
Relief
signed and dated 'E. Paolozzi 1975' (lower centre), and stamped with a foundry mark 'H.NOACK/BERLIN' (lower centre)
bronze with a brown gold patina
23 5/8 x 43 in. (60 x 109.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Galerie Meibner, Hamburg.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 June 2003, lot 41, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The present panel is based on a section of the large Kreuzberg relief (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh), in which Paolozzi has developed a similar visual language of shapes. Kreuzberg was preceded by the ceiling panels at Cleish Castle of 1972-73, which have now been removed from the castle and installed in the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh. In the early 1970s Paolozzi had discovered a German magazine illustration of 1927, showing organ music in the form of a patterned composition, which became the basis for his visual vocabulary.

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