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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)
Please scroll down for further information. Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) Fairground Dated 1947 Collage and paint on paper 55 x 26 cms (21¾ x 10¼ inches) 1947 Literature: Twentieth-century British Art, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2001, (cat. 7), illustrated p.17. Henry Moore and the Geometry of Fear, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2002, (cat. 24), illustrated p.42. Exhibition History: Henry Moore and the Geometry of Fear, James Hyman Gallery, 19 November 2002 - 18 January 2003 Provenance: Mayor Gallery, London, 1947 Acquired from the above by the previous owner Exhibitions: Mayor Gallery, Eduardo Paolozzi, 1948 In the later 1940s in collages indebted to ethnography and surrealism, Paolozzi constructed a new post-war vision of man based on an assault on his self-imaging: In Fairground Motif (October 1947), a surrogate figuration suggestive of African nail-riven fetishes replaces civilisation with savagery. Paolozzi later recalled the influences behind Fairground Motif: 'it was part of a series of images inspired by French playgrounds. I spent my first summer in Paris after the Slade in a large wooden studio at Denfert-Rochereau where there seemed to be a permanent summer fairground, and lots of shooting booths [also] I used to draw that summer at the Musée de l'Homme.' Eduardo Paolozzi, letter to James Hyman, 14 June 1994 For details of our catalogue and exhibition of British Sculpture HENRY MOORE AND THE GEOMETRY OF FEAR please click here This item is sold. Please click here if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
