Head

细节

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, R.A. (1924-2005)
Head
signed, numbered and dated 'E Paolozzi/1993/1/1' (at the base of the neck)
bronze with a black patina
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) high

来源

Gifted by the artist to the present owner.

注意事项

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品专文

The portrait head is a recurring subject throughout Paolozzi's career, from the early collages and fragmented 1950 bronze Mr Cruikshank (Tate Collection) to the later large scale public commissions. Paolozzi's personal collection reflected his fascination with the head; it included, for example, a German ethnological study of heads, alongside a competition to reassemble scramble photo-fit heads, run by Modern Mechanix and Inventions Magazine in 1935-6. Paolozzi believed the competition may have been one starting point, among others, for the Time collage portraits that he made in 1952 and 1953, which are graphic ancestors to his later sculpture that also deconstruct and reconstruct the human head. Rather the heads are layers of cultural experience, comingling with the history of art, which he filters and synthesises to make new truths.
(see R. Spencer, Eduardo Paolozzi: Recurring Themes, London, 1984, p.9)