SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI K.B.E., R.A., H.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1924-2005) §
RELIEF IN GOLD
£4,250
Auction: 18 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed in relief, signed and numbered 30/50 label verso, moulded porcelain on a stepped ebonised base, produced by Rosenthal
Dimensions
43cm x 28cm (17in x 11in)
Footnote
Note:
The Pop Art movement in Britain set the tone for the visual language of the Swinging Sixties. What was to become Pop, christened apparently by the art critic Lawrence Alloway, emerged from the hugely influential Independent Group which had evolved around the ICA in London in the mid 1950s.
Among the chief players was the young Scots Italian artist, Eduardo Paolozzi, whose unique brand of sculpture, collage and printmaking derived its ingredients from the art inspired by Surrealism and fuelled by American popular culture and found objects which he had created in Paris in the years immediately after the Second World War.
Paolozzi's work over the coming half century until his death in 2005 would build on this theme with increasing ingenuity. Using industrial engineering and a diverse array of materials, he managed to create some of the most memorable and highly collectable works of 20th century British art, particularly in print and relief sculpture.