Euston Square piece

Details

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, R.A. (1924-2005)
Euston Square piece
with studio stamp (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high, excluding the wooden base
Executed circa 1980.

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Lot Essay

Paolozzi made a series of machine heads in the late 1970s which culminated in the large cast-iron sculpture Piscator (1980-81), made for Euston Square, London. These heads were originally conceived from a ready-made which Paolozzi described in 1979 as being 'slightly African, which I quite like... the bottom part is based on a motor-bike, but the top part is invention.'

(see Exhibition catalogue, Eduardo Paolozzi; Recurring Themes, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, p. 21)

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