Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Take-off
About this artwork
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artist:
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title:Take-off
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date created:1950
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by the artist 1994
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accession number:GMA 3836.7
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gallery:View by Appointment
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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Of Italian descent, Paolozzi was born in Leith near Edinburgh. He studied in Edinburgh and London and spent two years in Paris from 1947, where he produced enigmatic, bronze sculptures reminiscent of those by Giacometti. During the same period he made a series of dada and surrealist-inspired collages in which…
