For Leonardo

Location

Country: Netherlands
City: The Hague
Place: British Embassy

Eduardo Paolozzi was born in Leith, Edinburgh, to Italian parents. During the Second World War he was interned in a camp as a foreign ‘alien’, before serving in the Royal Air Force until 1943. After the War, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art and at the Slade School, London. In 1947, he lived in Paris where he met the sculptor, Alberto Giacometti. Greatly influenced by Dada and Surrealism, he began producing distinctive collages. Returning to London in 1949, Paolozzi taught textile design at the Central School of Art and Design. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a leading exponent of British Pop Art. Paolozzi represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1960. Retrospectives of his work took place at the Tate Gallery (1971), and the National-Galerie Berlin (1975).He was elected a Royal Academician in 1979, appointed Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland in 1986, and knighted in 1988. His numerous public commissions include mosaics in Tottenham Court Road Underground Station and Newton, after William Blake, a sculpture for the new British Library (1995).

Places

Subjects

genre, man, woman

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005)

Title

For Leonardo

Portfolio Title

Artists' Choice

Edition

45/48

Date

1987

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

height: 30.80 cm, width: 30.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal College of Art, November 2007

Inscription

below image: 45/48 / Eduardo Paolozzi 1987

Provenance

Royal College of Art

GAC number

18161/34