Mondrian II

Robin Spencer comments on the present work: 'Paolozzi often adapted devices on which art in two dimensions is based in order to make art in three. He would consequently use the vocabulary of modernist painters to conceive sculpture, and cross-references between painting and sculpture regularly crop up in all periods of his work. Paolozzi's interest in Mondrian's New York period was long-standing, but it was not until the 1990s that his own late style coincided with that of the Dutch modernist when he based an entire series of sculpture on the Broadway Boogie-Woogie masterpieces of the 1940s' (private correspondence, 2 June 2011).

We are very grateful to Robin Spencer for his assistance in cataloguing lots 42, 190, 224 and 231.