SELECTED INVENTORY:
FRANCIS BACON
VANESSA BELL
CECIL COLLINS
ALAN DAVIE
PETER LANYON
C R W NEVINSON
BEN NICHOLSON
ANNE REDPATH
KEITH VAUGHAN
EDWARD WADSWORTH
PERCY WYNDHAM LEWIS
S I R E D U A R D O P A O L O Z Z I
1924 - 2005
Figure
Bronze on a black marble base, 27.9 cm high
Signed and dated 1956
A unique work
PROVENANCE:
Hanover Gallery, London;
Dominion Gallery, Montreal 1963; from whom acquired by
Dr. Murray Wilson, Ontario until 2010
In 1955 Paolozzi took up a teaching post at St Martins School of Art. During the next three years he developed a new style of sculpture that consisted of encrusted reliefs collaged together, made by pressing a variety of objects into the clay and then pouring wax over the surface. This sort of bricolage was heavily influenced by his exposure to Dubuffet in Paris.
