Lot 144
SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI K.B.E., R.A., H.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1924-2005) §
WHO'S AFRAID OF SUGAR-PINK AND LIME-GREEN?
Auction: 16 March 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Signed and dated 1971 in pencil to margin, numbered 2/100, screenprint, printed by Advance Graphic, London, 1971
Dimensions
152cm x 110cm (60in x 43in)
Footnote
Note: We are delighted to offer a collection of prints that were produced for the exhibition 'Fourteen Big Prints', organised by Bernard Jacobson and held in his gallery in 1972.
Jacobson had decided to invite a variety of contemporary artists who he had known for a long time, and whose work he thought would look good on a large scale. His intention was that the exhibition would draw a new audience to contemporary art, in the hope that 'perhaps one day the general public will realise that art didn't in fact end with Van Gogh.'
The catalogue included comments and correspondence from each of the artists or their peers on the artistic process and included work.
(J.G. Ballard on Eduardo Paolozzi, 1971)
'I think the biggest need of the painter or writer today is information. I'd love to have a tickertape machine in my study constantly churning out material: abstracts from scientific journals, the latest Hollywood gossip, the passenger list of a 707 that crashed in the Andes, the colour mixes of a new automobile varnish. In fact, Eduardo and I in our different ways are already gathering this kind of information, but we are using the clumsiest possible tool to do it: our own hands and eyes'
'It's always struck me that Eduardo's studio is lavishly equipped with photographic and recording equipment of various kinds. He spends a large part of his time on information collection and sorting'