£9,375
Contemporary & Post-War Art | 595
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Signed and numbered '10, bronze sculpture on a wooden base
Note: This sculpture is no. 5 from a small edition of bronzes. They were created by the artist to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Children's hospital.
Biography: Among the chief players of the 1960s Pop Art movement in Britain was the young Scots Italian artist, Eduardo Paolozzi. His 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.